so today was a perfect day – perfect morning – you just have these endless days in july and august that are miserably hot and humid to run in – and then, you wake up one morning and BOOM things are different and you think you can run forever – which is good when you run out of water with six miles left:)

“satchel” by tye – book on a great baseball player – we have a story on him in the sixth grade lit book – i guess the thing i took from the book is just how atypical the path of a guy from the negro leagues was – he played on a different team almost every year – and dozens of teams in the offseason – all b/c he was excluded due to baseball’s unwritten race rules (and baseball was one of the first to relax those) – definitely sad – particularly b/c satchel never went back to the best city on earth very often (mobile)

“america’s quarterback” by keith dunnavant – biography on bart starr – quality, quality guy – less a book about bart’s wonderful accomplishments with the packers (starr actually didn’t even play much his senior year at alabama – that was how bad the coaching was at the time), and much more about how a guy can deal with a strict father and a terrible childhood loss and turn those things into positives – instead of just carry that baggage and resent the world – glad he became a mountain brook-er:)

“creative strategy” by william duggan – great little book to use for educators – it’s written for business folk, but the things the columbia professor proposes definitely work in a gifted ed classroom – so we’ll give some of them a try

and finally… i read one of the high school BOBs – name undisclosed due to the fact i want to feel needed and e-mailed for the name – otherwise, i never hear from ya’ll and that makes me sad:( so anyway, i read of the high school BOBers – very long – but read it in a day b/c it was, um, not the greatest, let’s just say:) however, if you’re a fan of mystery – particularly possible psycho-thrillers, then this is the book for you – oh, and if you like the f-word, you’ll love the book:)

my favorite part in the book was when the main character started taking the transit in boston – and his stops were out where i stayed when i ran the marathon – and it was amazed that i remembered those stops – i can remember that but i can’t remember so many other things – like all the new teacher names…

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