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Show-and-Tell
When I was an early childhood teacher, I often included the popular practice of Show-and-Tell in my class’s daily routine. At circle time, each child could show an item and tell something about it. Sounds simple enough, but I soon realized…
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The Hunt for Red (and Orange and Yellow) October
Autumn is a season of change and of dependability, of drama and of subtlety, of transformation and reliability. In woodlands across our country, trees begin to shine with color. Their leaves shake off the dull greens and tans of late summer…
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A Cotton Candy Sky
From the past through our current times, cotton candy remains an iconic food at carnivals and fairs. Although now you can buy bags of cotton candy in the snack sections of grocery stores, nothing really takes the place of the old-style…
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Immersed in Beauty
The spring of 2024 may well go down in Texas history as the most beautiful and bountiful season of bluebonnet wildflowers in decades. Though bluebonnets reliably appear each spring sometime between late March and mid-April, the lush colors and thick drifts…
