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
A child's day at school is revealed through rhyming verse. Hopes, fears, laughs, and tears. What a kiddo sees and hears etc...
More rhyming verse from A Day at School delve into the fears, tears, jeers, and sometimes leers from the perspective of an elementary school kiddo.
The author reads 4 poems from a child's day at school. They are short, rhyming verse and usually have a kicker or twist at the end. All are light-hearted. Hopefully they will make you smile or at least recall those years at school.
The author reads rhyming verse of an elementary school child's trials, tribulations, and basic survival at school. There is always a clever or tongue in cheek comment at the end. Pages 23 -26.
The author reads an opinion piece about gun control he had published in V.O.M.B (Voices of Monterey Bay)
The author reads a story he had published in Shining Moments Visions of the Holy in Ordinary Lives. A doctor friend volunteered for a medical mission in Kenya. But initially he was put off by the religious tone of it. He found it too churchy. But was it?
Teacher Tails
Fruit or Vegetable...
Originally published in Chicken Soup for The Soul (First Dates & Soul Mates). The author reads his story about good intentions and a bowl of Coco Puffs from the Korean Island of Cheju.
Two teachers try to get away from school each day by eating in a car nearby. But fate and a former student alter their quiet and undisturbed lunch. If you are a teacher its very hard to get away from...school.
The author reads a story he had published in the Chicken Soup Book - Family Matters.
The author's 6 year-old brother annoyingly practiced the piano each morning. The author's 5 year-old sister had a hamster named Hammy. They also had a very high strung mother and an... usually calm stepdad. All of this comes to a whirlwind of connected chaos.
A DAY AT SCHOOL is rhyming verse about a child's day at school. Issues, worries, incidents, troubles, (real & imagined) cute, and silly happenings. With a kicker on at the end of each poem. Pages 19-22
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,
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