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December 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Rubrics are valuable, and so is knowing when to ignore them: oldcrowlibrary.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/b...
Beyond Rubrics
When my sister was in elementary school, she was given an assignment: all the students in her ELA class were asked to write an ending to Frank Stockton’s classic cliffhanger short story, &#82…
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December 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Happy birthday to the most beautiful woman and the best mom in the world! I love you!
July 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Summertime
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Welcome, Summer
What we’ve been doing with our summer: Strawberry shortcake at Chase Farms Visiting RMSC (Dawsonoceras americanum) Playing outside Asking for ice cream Playing with our water table Celebrating 9 ye…
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July 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Dawson Noises
Dawson makes a lot of noises. Almost all of them are loud and all of them are cute. However, unlike other toddlers, Dawson doesn’t express his various emotions with different, corresponding sounds.…
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June 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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May 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Scenes
I. On a yoga mat, beside a thin partition “Bring your hands together and find your center. Say a gentle ‘om’ with me.” “LET’S GO, LADIES! 1, 2, 3, 4! 1, 2, 3, 4!…
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May 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Dad, Mom, Dawson
Dad at Work I’m not entirely sure what I expected from my new role as Director of Technology. After all, I really haven’t had much experience with anything outside of classroom teaching…
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May 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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April 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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March 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Wiggle Calendar 4: Baby Olympics
The champions entered the stadium to the blast of trumpets and roll of drums. Onlookers gazed in awe at the wondrous athletes processing down the main avenue, each with an expression of solemnity s…
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March 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Wiggle Calendar 3: Plan 10-Year Anniversary Trip
We’ve been on a number of fun trips together within the continental U.S. and Canada (NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Toronto, ADK) but never overseas. Melissa went to London with D…
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March 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Wiggle Calendar 2: Cà phê Muối
I wouldn’t accuse our household of any snobbery, with the possible exception of coffee-drinking. Even so, our normal vessel for caffeine is a plain mug of black coffee from a drip machine, ha…
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March 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Wiggle Calendar 1: Facing Forward
As I said before, I tried to avoid any repeats of events from last year’s Wiggle Calendar, but it turns out there’s only so much to do in the late winter months in the Finger Lakes. We …
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March 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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A tradition like no other.

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The Wiggle Calendar Returns
It’s that time of year. The ground is covered with brown snow and ice. The sky is grey. Ash Wednesday is around the corner. Teachers look at their calendars and realize with a sort of fatal d…
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March 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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February 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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February 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Go Bills!
January 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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We love Mama!
January 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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December 24, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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Adding Marilla Cuthbert Makes Every Book Better
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a…
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December 18, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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#bookchallenge
December 13, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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#bookchallenge
December 12, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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#bookchallenge
December 11, 2024 at 10:54 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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#bookchallenge
December 10, 2024 at 11:15 AM