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**A Summer Repeat from Kathleen Krull** First of all, can we all get t-shirts made with the above quote? Credit for it, along with the prize in our INK contest, goes to Lelac Almagor , the inspirational English teacher at the KIPP DC: AIM Academy of inner-city Washington, D.C. Every day that my package to her procrastinated on my desk, I added another book for the amazing KIPPsters. It’s surely the nonfiction event of the year—David Macaulay’s The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Am

Adding pieces to your bathroom such as a dressing table or updated sink can be costly and a waste of raw materials. With a little creativity and a lot of ingenuity, you can transform regular pieces of furniture into functional bathroom items. The enhancements can make your bathroom appear like new in an eco-friendly way. There are a variety of inexpensive routes you can take to recreate your bathroom. For example, you can transform office furniture into multi-purpose pieces. A desk can be cu

A co-worker comes over to my desk and asks if he can ask a pet question. This happens all the time, of course, so I nod. He tells me that his wife left for a weekend to stay with a friend, and when she got there the house smelled like cat pee. The friend has “too many cats” (four, according to my co-worker), and asks the best way to let the friend know that her house smells. “She knows,” I told him. And then I asked if her cats seemed ill-cared-for, or if she was. Was the house, er, dange

I was sitting at my desk earlier, staring at the wall and pondering what to do next. Mr M and the boys had left for the day and the empty hours stretched endlessly and ahead of me (irony, people, smell the irony...). What to do? how to get started? The wall stared back as I sat drinking green tea in my 'drama queen' mug. (Drama queen? Moi?) Working on a WIP? nah. Too virtuous. Today was a day dedicated to shameless me time and self indulgence; finishing a WIP sounded too mu

Dropped onto my desk was the hefty School Specialty catalog, a bible of sorts in the educational world. You can get most any school supply here, preapproved, and it will be shipped altogether in time for your students to arrive in August. But most of the stuff sure isn't green. Not even close. I want to close the loop. I want to practice what I preach. Even with my small classroom budget, I don't want to buy pencils that aren't made of recycled wood and filler paper from virgin forests. It pai