Everything 50's

My husband and I will be celebrating 30 years of marriage in July of this summer. We dated for a whopping one and a half years prior to marrying, so we have actually already been together over 32 years as a couple.  Our first date was in January of 1984 and pretty much once we went out, we were a couple.  It seems that these days 30 years is a lifetime of a marriage, what with so many marriages not lasting nearly that long.  Also seems that it used to be a 30 year marriage was the norm. Do not worry, I am here to tell you how to make a perfect marriage last.  No, I am not. I have no idea. Our marriage is not perfect, far from it.  We have had our trials.  We have had the "for worse" parts for sure.  We just persevered I guess.  There were times in our marriage where it was as easy as breathing for me.  And then there were times it may as well have been climbing Mt. Everest, swimming across the English Channel, or leaping off the Empire Sta...

I really promised myself I wouldn't do this until my gig was up, yet here I am with a glass of wine on a Friday at 4:46 typing away.  One of those days.  And actually it wasn't that BAD of a day.  I made up my mind I was going to change my attitude about a certain group of kids (period 7). And I did. And for today that worked.  But as many of you teachers know it just takes that one kid to knock you down and make you wonder what in the world are you doing here. I really don't know why I am giving - let's call him Joe - a whole blog post, maybe I just need to get him off my chest.  And my neck, and my shoulders, they are tighter than a drum right now. The story is that  "Joe" started this year in one of my classes with me and from pretty much day one he didn't like me.  Don't get me wrong, I KNOW not all kids are going to like me. I have had probably more than a few in my 15 years of teaching that did not, but never have I had one tell me so on a week...