-
Join 2,964 other subscribers
Jeff’s Books
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
Joselyn’s Books
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
Patricia’s Books
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
Angela’s Books
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
Elaine’s Books
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
Categories
-
Recent Posts
Archives
Meta
Tag Archives: school
How my writing time changes with the seasons
I am able to procrastinate quite well in all of them. It’s easier to procrastinate in the summer when the weather is nice because ‘the sun is shining, we should be outside,’ and ‘I can’t write and watch the baseball … Continue reading
Final week of summer vacation
Didn’t Want it to End By Jeff Salter We’re blogging about summer’s ending and school’s beginning. More specifically: what were we thinking about during the final week of summer? Two years ago, I wrote about how I never wanted the … Continue reading
Posted in authors, childhood, Jeff Salter, Life, Miscellaneous, Random thoughts, writing, youth
Tagged back-to-school, last week of summer, Louisiana, school, school supplies, semester, summer, vacation
15 Comments
Son and Father
I have had my hands and head full the few days and I nearly skipped-out of this week’s blog,( for the first time). Then I realized that this is my first anniversary with” Four Foxes, One Hound” and I just … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, Jeff Salter, Tonette Joyce, writing, youth
Tagged Afghanistan, Air National Guard, beach, beach vacations, blogging, child's view of fatherhood, children's insight, Colorado, family, fatgher/son relations, fatherhood, fathers, fathers and sons, fathers day, Florida, interviews, Jeff Salter, Jonathan Dominic Skube jr, memorial day, memories, potato cannon, school, service in Iraq, Southern Kentucky Bookfest, The Bella Series, trips to the beach, vacations, violin student, Webelos Scouts, zoo
8 Comments
Last Week of School
With the exception of taking finals, I enjoyed those last few days of school. Books were turned in, no homework, and have the class wouldn’t show. It was during those few days that I learned my teachers were…GASP…HUMAN! I don’t … Continue reading
School’s out!
“Learn from the mistakes of others you won’t have time to make them all your self” ― Jill Shalvis, Simply Irresistible The summer break must be coming up soon in the USA – it’s the theme for this week: … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, Holiday, Life, Random thoughts
Tagged final school week, holidays, reports, school, summer holidays
8 Comments
The “Schultűte”
“That’s the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don’t expect them or want them.” ― Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now Ever heard your parents saying, “When I was your age …” –Well, I … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, Holiday, Life
Tagged back-to-school, Iris Blobel, school, Schultűte, traditions
18 Comments
Crossroads
Huh? What? It’s Monday? (Leaps out of bed, rubbing eyes, mumbles incoherently) For blasted sakes, why didn’t that alarm go off? Stupid tryptopan coma. Okay, I admit. I knew it was Monday, but I forgot about the Monday blog. Throw … Continue reading
A Time I Was in Danger and Didn’t Know It
I started law school when I was twenty years old. I lived in a one bedroom apartment by myself. I was a cute young thing who hung out at the pool a lot reading text books. It was better than … Continue reading
Posted in Jillian Chantal, Life
Tagged danger, laundry room, law school, life, Murder, pool, school, Weird guy
8 Comments
Missed 32 of Third Grade’s Final 70 Days
… Though Not All in the Hospital By Jeff Salter When asked my most unusual hospital experience, I didn’t have many to choose from. Other than my brief stay after a 1953 tonsillectomy, this experience – of … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, Jeff Salter, Life, Miscellaneous, Random thoughts, writing
Tagged 1959, boredom, doctor, grandmother, hepatitis, hospital, IV drip, jaundice, medicine, pastor, purgatory, school, teacher, visitor, visitors, yellow jaundice
10 Comments
Countdown to Memorial Day
I have a dirty little secret. Well, maybe not super secret. It’s not like I’m dressed in black sneaking around a la John Belushi in “Animal House” when he goes to spy on the sorority chicks. It’s more of the … Continue reading