Posted by: dateacher on: May 25, 2009
May 30, 1868 – the first time Memorial Day was observed in he USA. So why do we celebrate Memorial Day on the last Monday of May if the first celebration was on May 30, which in my research was the date established by an official order to be Memorial Day. Sometime along the way, [...]
Posted by: dateacher on: May 21, 2009
Now that my stint as a temp dental assistant is over and I officially start my summer vacation, I have been thinking about summer vacations of the past.
As a child, many a summer vacation was spent at the beach. My mother grew up near Myrtle Beach and most of her immediate family still live in [...]
Posted by: dateacher on: March 20, 2009
I’m not much of a reader. I chalk it up to the fact that during my formative years I was given lists of books during the summer that had 2 parts – a list of required reading and a suggested list from which to choose 2 or 3 to read. Being forced to read during [...]
Posted by: dateacher on: October 7, 2008
I feel like all I’ve written about on my blog lately is a bunch of complaints, rants, or otherwise unpleasant comments. I didn’t want this to be a type of complaint department, so I want to take a cue from another blog I read often: Household 6 Hooah’s Weblog about army life and specifically the [...]