And guess what…you little stinkers are going to be featured! Don’t worry! I’ll change your names. Maybe. Here’s a partial list of what will make it into the book: The day I flooded my classroom. The sugarcane paper fiasco. How I traumatized a colleague by …
Read MoreNo, You Should Not Use Elemental Sodium To Create An Actual Bath Bomb
I really need to start lying to my students. Or, at the very least, don’t confirm that their ideas will work. See, here’s the thing. I teach Chemistry to high schoolers, specifically sophomores. I love them to death. They are a great crew of kids. …
Read MoreHow To Make A Cast of A Dromaeosaur Track
Or rather, in my case, utterly failing at making a track cast. Years back, I purchased a track cast from what I strongly suspect is a British dromaeosaur. They leave very distinctive footprints, and are hard to miss. This type of animal would usually hold …
Read MoreI Am Done. It Is Finished.
The school year…not writing. I’ll be at that until the day I die and get to go and make whatever supreme being out there utterly insane. You’ve been warned, whatever you are! I’m not going to say that I write as a survival mechanism, but …
Read MoreReptile Wrangler: Copperhead Mayhem
Why is it always me that gets to remove rogue critters from a school? Or gets brought animals (salamanders, scorpions, dead black widows, kittens) and asked to care for them? Oh, wait…it’s because everyone who worked with me knows that I did four and a …
Read MoreFixing Stuff, And Copper Carnival Horse Prizes From The 1950’s
Teachers wear a lot of hats. On any given day, we might be a teacher, surrogate parent, referee, counselor, sounding board, you name it. In my case, I’m also a repairwoman. I used to make jewelry as a side business, and while that hustle went …
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