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Years of Service – Part Two Once again the school year started up and once again I didn’t have a teaching position.  I decided it would be a good idea to at least substitute teach to have myself  “out there” in case a position would become open.  I made index cards with my name andContinue reading “Years of Service – Part Two”

Years of Service – Part One My teaching career has spanned twenty eight years and two and a half months.  All of those have been in Catawba County,  including my semester of student teaching at St. Stephens Elementary in 1981. In ’81 teaching jobs were hard to come by.  I hadn’t been hired by theContinue reading “Years of Service – Part One”

Page One When looking at the preceding post, some would say “Where did you come up with the forty-four year period of time in schools?”  Unless I started at a very young age as a teacher (I’m currently fifty years old), that would have been quite a feat.  I’m including in that number my ownContinue reading “Page One”

The Beginning of the End… I’ve decided as I work my way through my twenty-ninth year of teaching that this will be my final year in the classroom.  I was keeping a journal of thoughts and feelings on the matter and will use this blog to chronicle my last year in the profession.  I wasContinue reading “The Beginning of the End…”

Whether or not I was consciously aware of it at the time, God’s presence has been a guiding force in the circumstances of my life. As I seek to have a clear relationship with Him, I can only surmise that I’ll be much more aware of how He works in my life. Not that I’llContinue reading “Divine Providence in My Life”