by Leanne Kinney | Apr 7, 2013 | Analogies for Experience
This time last year I was packing. In addition to what I had in my classroom, I had an office with a wall full of shelves, a 3-sided desk, a huge horizontal filing cabinet and a wardrobe. In those spaces I had accumulated the things that a teacher accumulates over 5...
by Leanne Kinney | Mar 31, 2013 | Analogies for Experience, Learning from Life
A few years ago I had the good fortune to play ultimate Frisbee with a group of kids on Sunday afternoons at Laurel Park. As the weather got warmer, I started playing barefoot in the soft grass. One Sunday evening, I stepped on something. I’m a lifetime warm-weather...
by Leanne Kinney | Mar 25, 2013 | Analogies for Experience
This has been a season of waiting for me. In the book of Leanne, waiting produces metaphors. I’m not good at waiting. I’m not good at it at all. Over the last few years I’ve taught some beginning piano and theory lessons, and one of the things that beginners find...
by Leanne Kinney | Mar 18, 2013 | Analogies for Experience
But Charlie, don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted …he lived happily ever after. (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) Several years ago I went over to my friend Wendy’s house for something or another...
by Leanne Kinney | Mar 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Several years ago I came home from teaching a 2-week camp with some sort of virus. After my doctor tested me for mono and stereo and everything else he could think of, I went home with my prednisone to just tough it out. I was too sick to get out, but not sick enough...
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