Penmanship and the Palmer Method
The Palmer Method still strikes fear in my heart. No other curriculum ever did so much to stifle my interest in a topic I found fascinating. I spent a good chunk of the third...
Tagged: elementary school
Playground Nazis
In the fifth and sixth grade, I went to school in East Carondelet, Illinois. It was a small town of 600 sandwiched between the Mississippi Levee and the MoPac Railroad. I loved my teachers...
Slippery Slope
It was an odd winter. Every day above freezing. Every night below. The sleet and freezing rain came, melted a little, and refroze. Soon the whole St. Louis area was covered with three or...
I Killed the McDLT: My 4th Grade Petition
As a kid back in the 1980s, I loved McDonald’s, like most of my peers. This was back when McDonald’s was a treat, and not just a lazy way out of making dinner. And...
