Category Archives: Properties of Life
The Only Thing that’s Not Rose Up is the Salt, the Family Set of Instant Noodle Packs, Up $20N.T.s
Let’s have a looksy, at how thing are, hiked up, higher, higher, and higher still and eventually, we won’t even be able to afford what we need, to live off of, on the FIRST level of hierarchy of needs here! … Continue reading
The Questions of the Robot Boy
The experiences of managing, a classroom full of, ill-behaving children, translated… “Why don’t you get angry?”, that special child, slowly moved to my desk, and inquired. I was stumped for a bit. “Why don’t I get angry? So, you think, … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Perspectives, Education, Experiences of Life, Lessons of Life, Methods of Education, Instructional Technologies, Philosophies of Life, Problems in Education Today, Properties of Life, Purpose of Education, The Passages in Life, Values of Life
Tagged an Ill-Behaving Class of Students, on Classroom Management
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Geckos, Roaches, & Others
The encounters in one’s own kitchen, that ended up, enlightening, translated… Suddenly, a gecko appeared from out of nowhere on my walls, don’t know when it came into the house. The huge gecko looked chubby, and would call out every … Continue reading
Father, Remembered, a Poem
How wisdoms come with, age, translated… The Moments that Felt Too Real Came & Went I’d Owned, Too Many to, Count Those Features After the Rain The Hills in the Memories The Species of Locally-Grown Mangoes The Tracks of the … Continue reading
This is How Finland Does its Schools, Stop Testing for Understanding or Levels of Achievements
What we should, lean, towards, in, education, but do we? HECK no, we’d, returned, back to the, one-test-determines our futures means from before, off of the Front Page Sections, translated… The new curriculum set up in Taiwan stressed the core … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Perspectives, Beliefs, Education, Experiences of Life, Facts, Lessons of Life, Methods of Education, Instructional Technologies, Philosophies of Life, Properties of Life, Purpose of Education, Reforms in Education, the Learning Process, Values of Life
Tagged Doing Away with Testing, Student-Centered Teaching Methods
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Dementia & Her Cat
Dementia got a cat, or rather, it’s the cat, that started, owning her… Dementia lives alone on her own, and, longed to have someone there, to talk to, one day, a cat, came into her home, and started, squatting there. … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Perspectives, Cost of Living, Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Experiences of Life, Properties of Life, Ranting About Life, the Consequences of Life, The Passages in Life, the Process of Aging, the Process of Life, Values of Life
Tagged Companionship for the Elderly Years
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His Mind, Invaded by Dementia
Dementia, started, invading his mind, first, it was, only, one single, neuron, then, the dendrites, axons of that one neuron atrophied, and, the atrophies started, spreading across the entire population of his, brain cells, paralyzing every last one of ‘em … Continue reading
Posted in Cost of Living, Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Elderly Caretaking, Experiences of Life, Lessons of Life, Mishaps in Life, Properties of Life, Ranting About Life, the Consequences of Life, The Trials of Life
Tagged Demented Elderly Living Alone, Living Dangerously in the Elderly Years with Dementia, Making Troubles for His Own Loved Ones
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Mimi & Grandpa No Longer Allowed Out
The elderly years, with dementia taking over his mind, and, a cat too, translated… Mimi skipped out, again. It’s not that big a deal, because, he normally only, wanders around the roof of the second story home adjacent to my … Continue reading
Heading Out Ten Minutes Earlier
A WAKEUP call you’re desperately, in need of, and thankfully you, took it! Translated… My neighbor traveled to Alishan, brought back some foods as gifts to me. As we were chatting, she’d noted how the clock in my living room … Continue reading
Life, the Obstacle Course 