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I was quite surprised when, as a rookie, I realized that one of the most difficult aspects of being a teacher was having to be a fake.
Students learn best when they can relate to a teacher, yet schools require us to be obscure mysteries. Schools want you to inspire from a distance. Only your “teacher [...]

Uh oh. For the first time this year, one of my students looked at my school web page and said, “Hey, it links to a site called williammorgan.net.” There goes my wall of separation between work and life. There goes my right to privacy. (Of course if I really cared I probably would have chosen [...]

After a year or two without a Facebook page I decided to check it out again. Two years ago it was nothing but high school students I knew, but now almost every human I have ever come in contact with has a page. I’ve gone through some kind of Kübler-Rossian grief cycle as my emotions [...]

A lazy time on the old blog. As usual it’s not due to having nothing to say. Rather it has to do with the nebulous nature of this blog. It can’t seem to settle down. Blog full of literary reviews? Then what do I do when life makes me go a month without digging into [...]

Eight days remaining (or, as I tell my students in my endlessly rationalizing internal countdown, “4 real days, 1 assembly day, and 3 final exam days”). I should end the year with some insight, but the closest I come is by emphasizing my lack of insight. As I also tell my students, “We’re not working [...]

Due to popular demand (a.k.a. both my readers wanted to add their own high-quality Imagist poetry or perhaps tell me to stop writing obsessively about Hannah Montana) I turned on the comment section. Now shake hands and come out swinging! (Insert cricket sounds here.)

So here is a site getting all kinds of press (and even a book deal) that falls into the category of Mildly Amusing Yet Eventually Frustratingly Unfunny: Stuff White People Like. Scroll through some of the entries and see if you come to the same conclusions I have. The real problem with this site is [...]

Rarely do I enjoy a new word–since most creations value cutesiness and craftiness to an obnoxious extreme–but occasionally one comes along that deserves its nativity. Today’s impressive creation is “Googlegänger,” defined as “Similar to that of a doppleännger, it is another individual with the same name as you whose records and/or stories are mixed in [...]

After months of annoyance caused by my previous web host (who I will not name–not out of kindness but out of not being in the appropriate mood for a long rant), I finally switched to another company (who I won’t compliments since I have only been with them for a day and don’t want to [...]

Original Intent: To write a post contrasting my 1977 Christmas to my 2007 Christmas. The comparison developed thanks to the fabulous gift of two classic Big Wheels, one for Sam and one for Lily. Made in the USA, original bright reds and yellows, still requiring a cool laid-back low rider approach to peddling, and able [...]