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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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Letters to the Future

May 22, 2014

It's probably the highlight of the year for me, and it's definitely the most enjoyable assignment to assess. At the end of every year, I have my English I Honors students -- students who skip...

Service

Service

May 9, 2014

Fourth period students, during the time we usually have SSR, joined with the rest of the school in creating get well cards children in the Greenville hospital system. [gallery type="rectangular"...

MAP Spring 2014

Mar 5, 2014

Waiting for MAP results when things are going this well is it must have been like in the "old days" when expectant fathers paced in the waiting room.

Second Gold

Second Gold

Feb 16, 2014

My wife's cousin proved it wasn't a fluke last week by winning a second gold in Olympic ski jumping, this time on the "big" hill (as if there's a small one for us mere mortals). Congratulations to...

Gold Medal Family

Gold Medal Family

Feb 9, 2014

Big, big news on the home front: my wife's cousin, Kamil Stoch, won the gold medal in ski jumping in Sochi. He was about seventeen when my wife and I married, and he caught the garter at our...

Midterm Exam

Jan 2, 2014

Working on the English I Honors midterm exam -- oh, do I have something fun for you, kiddos!

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Billy Collins on That Little Piggy

Nov 2, 2013

THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT TO MARKET is the usual thing to say when you begin pulling on the toes of a small child, and I have never had a problem with that. I could easily picture the piggy with his...