Hazards of Saying Yes
This doesn’t end well. Yes. Such an uncomplicated word, yet I can trace nearly all my problems back to it. It isn’t that I dislike hearing it, on the contrary, I love to hear it; “Why, yes you may have the day off!”, “Yes, you have won at life!”. The problem arises when I end […]
School Day Blues
“Jordan? Jordan?!” “Present Mrs. Calloway!”, I gasped, looking up from my journal where I was writing. Laughter echoed around me as my friends tease me for drifting off again. And why shouldn’t I write or daydream? Afterall, don’t they keep asking us to be creative and imaginative? I loved to walk around my own little […]
Teaching Strategies That Work
When I began my journey in teaching. The very first question I had was, how do I teach? Is there some magical spell or potion that allows me to teach perfectly? The answer is no. It’s all trial and error. No one knows the art of perfect teaching. We all learn from our mistakes. Even […]
Anchored
We met on a sunny afternoon When the leaves turned yellow. The sun shone through you, A pretty halo. I blinked, stuttered. At a loss for words. It was a moment, Perhaps seconds. But my mind ran through years. Every sentence. Each word. That I had to hear. It wasn’t easy, Growing up. […]
MONSTERS
All alone, The disquiet. We think we are safe at night, In the silence. Do we always forget? We are never alone, at rest. Our fears, nightmares, all that we hide, In a pretty little box kept bedside. It’s not the monsters under our beds, That we must fear. It’s the monsters in our heads, […]
The Distorted Image
There are days when we wake up unable to identify what exactly is it that we are feeling. Something’s off. All we know is that it isn’t going to be one of our better days. Even the slightest thing manages to set us off. Alarm bells ring in our head, warning us to just stay […]
Observation and Implication
Years pass by, yet they remain a stranger. Did we ever truly speak? We claim to know them like the back of our hands. Do we? Sometimes we don’t have to know a person in order to understand them. ————- “Dammit, Jessica is late again!”, thought Marie, nails tapping away at the table agitatedly. Huffing […]
Teacher’s Drama: A Teacher Doesn’t Just Teach
“Teaching? Ah it is not so complicated!”, I thought naïvely. When I became a teacher, I had expected it to be pretty much straightforward. Teach, correct the books, and come back home. This is where I made my first mistake, the sheer amount of multi-tasking that went into it boggled me. At anytime I was […]
Sharp Teeth Sharp Smiles
Moving places was a difficult business. You always felt you have left something behind, perhaps it was the memories. “Dust. So much dust.”, thought Bernadette as she stared at the massive book lined shelf. “The previous owners must have really liked to read.”, she muttered as dusted them down. Coughing from the work she backed […]
Location, Location, Location
A perfect location is a necessity for survival. ________________________________ “Dax! Did you repair the thrust on the tail end? Unit 05 is on perimeter check tonight!” “Yes commander! I have done it Sir!”, saluted Dax. The commander nodded in acknowledgement and left. Sighing Dax made his way towards the break room and collapsed on the […]
