Providers Not Accepting Certain Insurance Leads to Lack of Care

There are many terrible things with the health care system in the U.S., and most of us have been there at one point or another. Recently, a parent developed a complication and the doctor doesn't know why. I've offered my suggestions on the cause, and the doctor listened and tried them (instead of dismissing them),…

Despair in Gun Violence

There was a shooting at an elementary school last week killing 3 children and 3 adults. Do you know what I did? After greeting my students, I informed them of the incident without details. Then, I told them that it's one of the reasons why I rearranged the classroom - so I have a better…

RIP TI-30Xa Solar

Cue the horns. Cue the only person in attendance donning black and white. Cue the silence. I've had this calculator, a TI-30Xa Solar scientific calculator, for over 20 years. It's beat-up from years of brawls in my backpack, and emerged victorious. In math classes when many of my peers switched to graphing calculators, I kept…

Hello, It’s Spring Break

... and it's almost over. Rest assured that I'm alive...tired, but alive. Spring break was a tiny breather. A lot has happened since my last post. I'll be brief. I've been working a lot - 7 days a week a lot - so I upcycled as a reward. These are smaller than the ones I…

Yin & Yang: A Fool’s Beginning, a Review from a Reluctant Reader

I tried another book by Odette C. Bell and couldn't finish it due to irreconcilable differences. Since I believe in second chances, I gave Yin & Yang: A Fool's Beginning a try. It's another one of Bell's fantasy novels, the first in a series of five books. It contains magic powers, good vs. evil, possibly…