I’ll be heading back into a classroom soon. Luckily, it will be filled with adults not adolescents. Here are six of my favourite memories about teachers from my secondary school days around the start of the eighties.
Teacher names have been changed to protect the guilty (students).
1. Mr. Gray was an aging history teacher with a face of [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Six of the best
Posted in Education on July 26, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Just swimming in the rain
Posted in Canada life, Parenting on July 21, 2007 | 6 Comments »
It’s Thursday evening under darkening skies. The two teams line up to face each other. Brief glances are exchanged as the players assess possible weaknesses. The referee, officiously dressed in black, signals to the opposing goalkeepers. She blows her whistle.
Another football match in the Mississauga Under 8’s division gets underway. My son’s team, in green shirts, attack down the right . The move [...]


