I'm surprised more people don't have blogs here at healthkicker. Most people who participate here seem to be xangans! Alrighty, so what have I done already?: I've more or less crunched the numbers of the space we have a...

First, I guess I should introduce myself:  Hi. If any of you are also xangans, it's possible that you've run across at least ONE of my xangas. I have a politics one. An icon one. One for short stories. AND  a j...

New Attitudes-New PossibilitiesThe article "New Attitudes-New Possibilities" talks about other, it was written by Eileen Bodoh.I AM SO GRATEFUL for dating challenges head-on. We see mistakes as learning experiences in di...

My day with third graders yesterday made me think a long time about why we teach what we teach. In math, we learned two different kinds of estimation- the usual rounding version and front end estimation where only the f...

File this under: "You Learn Something New Every Day."  I'm catching up on People and Places itching to get out of the "A" countries and into the "Bs".  But the section on Australia is HUGE. And next thing ...

i have this eagerness to write a blog entry at 3:19 in the morning and it's mainly because i'm mustering a plethora of raw emotion that i can't necessarily express by mouth, but rather, in writing.i can't decide what i'm...

lately one of my 9th grade goals was to learn to appreciate art more. like listen to new musics. and learn the art of conversation and take an art class, stuff like that. well the music thing is pretty cool. i found this...

{The Agora - Book Circle} Previously, I briefly mentioned how I disliked the classroom environment, I still do. Everyone knows that school, college, or any learning institution, can never teach one about life, and I...

so on the political stance, i am a republican but now am borderlining becomming an independant.  Ever since i was little i have been told that democrats are communists and still do believe it today but based on my r...

My wife is a special-ed teacher. Not all of "her kids" are autistic or suffer severe disorders. Some are just having a hard time because they have mild learning disabilities. One of her students, lets call him Rudy, is s...