New Year Resolution Hoping to excite student interest in our reading center, I asked each teacher to write a New Year's resolution on a special fo...
Ground Rules One of my favorite teachers at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau was known of his droll sense of humor. Explaining hi...
Warning Several weeks after our son began his freshman year at Alma College in Michigan, my husband and I decided to visit him. I was careful to call ...
Real Play When I taught the introduction-to-theater course at North Dakota State University, I required my students to attend the university theater&#...
He Was Only Wrong by Two Jack Hawkins was the football coach at an Amercian college, and he was always trying to find good players, but they weren'...
Napoleon Was Ill Jack had gone to the university to study history, but at the end of his first year, his history professor failed him in his examinati...
A Fine Match One day a lady saw a mouse running across her kitchen floor. She was very afraid of mouse, so she ran out of the house, got into a bus an...
Present for Girlfriend At a jewelry store, a young man bought an expensive locket as a present for his girlfriend. "Shall I engrave her name on i...
Wood Fire One woman lectured her best friend on the nature of the male animal. "Husbands are like wood fires; they go out if left unattened."...
Gardening Gloves For months I hinted that I needed a new wedding ring, since I had developed an allergy to gold. On my birthday, while I was gardening...