Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts
Short stories. No annoying ads. No mercenary pitches. Just stories to warm your heart. Vetted published articles/tales/short stories (L.A.Times, Newsweek, Seattle Times, Teacher Magazine, Chicken Soup, Miami Herald, etc.) by Paul H.Karrer about: Kids, Teachers, Parents, Education, Korea, Incarceration, Samoa, Peace Corps, New Zealand, California, Connecticut, Teaching, Dogs, Chess, Multicultural Marriage, Foods-real or imagined and more. Most are light-hearted.
Episodes
Three RPCVs (Return Peace Corps Volunteers) discuss their time in the Peace Corps in Samoa (1978-1980) Dr. Michael Baughan, Paul Karrer - Teacher Tails Host, Harvey Gerry
The author reads a story he had published in Chicken Soup for The College Soul.
A female student is surprised at all the attention she gets as she drives her car.
The author reads his Chicken Soup Story of female students dealing with a totally blinding blizzard.
The author reads his Chicken Soup Story - Mom, You Have to Try. A family suffers as the grand mother starts to lose her memory. But after she is gone they learn she really really did try.
The author reads 2 of his rhyming verses from his kids' book A DAY AT SCHOOL
poems 13 & 14. All have a kicker at the end.
The author reads an article he had published about slavery at sea and the tuna industry.
The author and his sister deal with a difficult mother who changes for the better due to Alzheimers.
The author explains some realities of Jury Duty and he has some recommendations,
The author reads 3 poems about survival at an elementary school.
The Bully
The Hand
Bathroom Stalls
The author reads 4 very short rhyming verse poems about the realities of elementary school. All have a kicker on the end. A riddle, puzzle or comment.
p.6. The Ride
p.7 Reading Hurts My Head
p.8 Numbers
p.9 What Am I?
A DAY AT SCHOOL is simple rhyming verse about well...a day at school. Humorous and each short poem has a kicker, problem, riddle or final say at the end. About a minute in length each - a read 3 at a time.
The author reads a super short poem he published with a clever whimsical twist at the end. Fits right in with TEACHER TAILS. And if you admire humming birds even better.
The author notices one of his female students cries when it rains. He asks why and finds out her parents work the fields. He also discovers many other things about her and her 6 year old brother.
The author interviews Susan Gerbic - a Scientific Skeptic. She debunks psychics, mediums, fortunetellers, soothsayers, astrologers, etc. The New York Times (Feb. 2019) wrote an article about her revealing a fraudulent celebrity psychic. She's not a favorite in the anti-science world of money making grief vampires (Those who make money by defrauding and scamming those who need/want to speak with deceased loved on...
A teacher reveals his own border crossing at age 6. His Coyote (A cousin) is offered two bags of groceries for the crossing
The author sits next to a Korean grandma during Thanksgiving. She reveals how as a 17 year old she fell in love with a North Korean soldier. She details how her family fled north and then back south. Also, how she survived being machine-gunned buy a U.S. plane. And what you eat when you are starving...
The author is told by a former student, now an inmate, in Level 4 Maximum Security - HOW TO GO FISHING IN PRISON.
The inmate was in solitary confinement for 7 years
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