Susan Dayley's Blog, page 38
March 14, 2011
Effective Time-Outs
Parents are an essential part of a child's life. Their role is not an easy one. They are the ones who guide their children in learning right from wrong. Without effective parents, children are in a world that functions on the same rules of bumper-cars where everything goes, the bully dominates, and nobody becomes self-governing, [...]
March 12, 2011
Thinking of Toshiharu Tajitsu
Japan is a land of people. Many people. This disaster has affected millions. Every news report I have read since Friday morning has reminded me of when I was there. When I read that the trains in Tokyo shut down, stranding tens of thousands in the city overnight, I was stunned. I have ridden those [...]
March 11, 2011
Things To Do Before it's Over
I've seen a lot of frightened blogs lately. TEOLAWKI type posts. People are seeing the handwriting on the (subway) wall. Actually the intensity is not so different than a newsletter I used to read in the 80's, but I'm starting to agree that it's getting pretty dire. Whether life does change (some are saying best [...]
March 9, 2011
It Works, I Promise.
There are many things do we do all the time without consciously thinking of all the steps involved: tie a shoe, type a sentence, or even walk across the room. What brought us to this stage of automatic response? Repetition. Repetition works great for learning times-tables, a dance routine, and driving a car. Some things [...]
March 7, 2011
What I Got after 50 Cents per Hour and Slobber on My Shirt
Why have I kept my clarinet years after the last time I marched in a football halftime or played in pep band during a basketball game? Am I attached to heavy red uniforms that transformed us to soldiers at the gates of Toyland? Maybe it was the endless unheated bus rides in the dead of [...]
March 4, 2011
10 Ways I Face the End of all Things
How do you get through life when it crashes against you like a tsunami? Big time scary events that threaten to change lives, security and sanity? We all go through scary or painful times sooner or later, but when they happen, the temptation to hide under a bed is great. Here is how I face [...]
March 2, 2011
Stuck in the Mud
If I had lived during the age of exploration, I'd have been a stow-away on a sailing ship. A thousand years ago, about this time of year, when the snow on the mountains begins to recede, and the ground gets soft, my little friend and I decided to take a different route home from school. [...]
February 28, 2011
Beware
I got my clarinet out of storage yesterday. I opened the case with it's banged up corners and one sprung lock. My clarinet and I have travelled a few miles and years together long ago. Like many things that age, it isn't what it used to be. It now has new corks, a different mouthpiece [...]
Never too Late
I got my clarinet out of storage yesterday. I opened the case with it's banged up corners and one sprung lock. My clarinet and I have travelled a few miles and years together long ago. Like many things that age, it isn't what it used to be. It now has new corks, a different mouthpiece [...]
February 25, 2011
Adult Truths
(reposted in part from Our Dayley Happenings.) 3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger. 4. There is great need for a sarcasm font. [You think?] 5. How in the world are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet? 6. Was learning cursive really necessary? [The [...]
