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Category: Life of a Teacher

Fire in My Classroom

Nine years ago this week a fire above my classroom caused the evacuation of the entire school. I’d complained about the drip drip drip from the ceiling for weeks. Finally the water caused an electrical short and a fire. Good times.

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Post Surgery

Not a pretty sight. Sandy took this snapshot of me in PostOp. My hernia repair surgery went fine. I’m home now, but managing quite a bit of post-surgical pain. A few takeaways from the experience: I had no idea how many people are involved in surgery, all the nurses before, during, and after; I also was surprised by how fast the anesthesia kicked in. One minute I was staring at the lights above the operating table, and then suddenly I’m waking up in the recovery room. There was no sense of time or duration. Boom! It was all over with.

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Graduation 2019

I had the honor of reading the names of the graduates of Sonora High School class of 2019. At the end, I captured this short clip of the graduates tossing their caps into the air.

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