Tag: classrooms

• The Social History of a Man’s Tie Rack

    Many of you, my faithful readers and fans, probably assume that I just write a blog and then go off and mow the lawn, fish, read, paint, take Pilates, go to a movie, make a big bowl of popcorn, cook a stack of buttermilk flapjacks, attend a men’s support group, catalogue my moth collection,…

  patrickjegan

  September 2, 2014

  Blogging, Creativity, Everyday Events, humor, Memories, non-fiction, Real Personal History

  classrooms, Endicott, Ireland, necktie fashion, neckties, New York City, NY, old neckties, Quaker school, teaching

• The Skeleton in the Taxi

  The Division Head in the private school where I taught was very adamant. “All this stuff has to go, Pat.  Everything you don’t use in a year should be cleaned out.” I looked around the Middle School lab and began to make mental notes of what needed to be tossed.  The chemicals, of course, had…

  patrickjegan

  April 23, 2014

  Blogging, Everyday Events, humor, Real Personal History

  classrooms, East River, Fifth Ave., Metropolitan Museum, NYC, private schools, science labs, skeletons, son