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Various ventures into Mr. Scott’s mind.

Cemetery of Memories

The first time I approached the cemetery in Lipnica Wielka was November of 1996, and I headed up for my first experience with All Saints' Day in Poland. I took pictures and made mental notes for my journal: I left my apartment around 4:30 and headed up to the cemetery...
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Trstená Supermarket

Just across the border from where I lived in Poland (Lipnica Wielka) and where my wife grew up (Jablonka) is a Slovak town called Trstená. We go there every time we visit family in Poland. I love Trstená because unlike much of Central Europe, it seems frozen in time....
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Warszawa Centralna

Looking at some old pictures, I found a shot of Warszawa Centralna train station from about 2002. It was an exterior night shot, and there was little indication of what the station looked like inside. What it looks like now is vaguely similar, but there have been so...
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Good News!

Sep 20, 2015

I'm in the midst of grading English I Honors students' second major writing assignment, and I'm very pleased with the improvement I'm seeing. I'm so impressed, in fact, that I think the assignment...

Twitter Test

Aug 17, 2015

My feed to Twitter has not worked since February, and I just now realized it. This is a test to see if I fixed it.

Mail Chimp Test

Aug 15, 2015

This is just a test to see if my Mail Chimp account is working. Cross your fingers!

Ready to Roar

Ready to Roar

Aug 14, 2015

Last night we had our "Ready to Roar" orientation for new sixth-grade students at Hughes. Monday, at 5:30, the seventh- and eighth-grade students will come for a visit, which means I'll meet you, my...

The Beginning Is Near

Aug 5, 2015

We have less than two weeks remaining before the start of the school year. In a few days, all the teachers will begin making the daily trek to the school, holding meetings, preparing classrooms,...

Lipnica Wielka

Lipnica Wielka

Mar 30, 2015

This is Lipnica Wielka, the little village in southern Poland where I lived for seven years, from 1996 to 1999 and then again from 2001 to 2005. Those mountains in the distance are the Tatra...

Stats

Jan 16, 2015

Below are this site's stats for 2014 in comparison to previous years. Significant growth, I'd say. Months and Years Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2010 270 1,375 2,592 8,119...

Example

Dec 3, 2014

Ladies and gentlemen of fourth and sixth periods, this is how it is done: I believe that Juliet hopes she made the correct decision for Romeo's sake but she has doubts if her decision is the right...

Irony and Symbolism Example

Sep 20, 2014

An example of an excellent student paragraph: In the story The Necklace Mme. Loisel feels that the necklace will bring her the life that she covets but the irony in this story does just the...

Bela Fleck Plays Bach

Sep 13, 2014

I've always been a fan of Bela Fleck: what can you say about a man who takes an instrument usually associated with bluegrass and plays Bach on it?

Photograph from September 11

Sep 11, 2014

By Wislawa Szymborska They jumped from the burning floors— one, two, a few more, higher, lower. The photograph halted them in life, and now keeps them above the earth toward the earth. Each is still...

The Introduction

Sep 10, 2014

Billy Collins shows how poetry can indeed be witty.