April Coker, Author

Tag: teaching

  • Teacher Tuesday: Another school year gone. . .

    I I was at my doctor’s office today getting a bone density screening (yes, I’m that old) and the technician said, “So, you teach?” Of course I told her I had retired last year, so she congratulated me and proceeded to tell me that she used to be a school teacher and sometimes wanted to…

  • FOLK Magazine 2013 Journal Challenge: The Meaning of Time

    Today’s journal prompt from Folk Magazine challenges us to reflect on the meaning of time by thinking about these questions:  What do you spend your time doing?  Is there something you wish you had more time to do?   Those are loaded questions, aren’t they?  Time is something we seem to take for granted until…

  • Teacher Tuesday (on Wednesday): Why are teachers tired?

    Yes, I know it’s Wednesday, but yesterday I wrote about American ingenuity as a part of FOLK Magazine’s 2013 Journal Challenge, so I’m a day behind.  I could have gone ahead and written about wedded life as I am supposed to on Wednesday, but what is a blog if it isn’t done according to the…

  • AT HOME MONDAY: My story?

    Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Appreciating the authentic story of another hinges on understanding your own authentic story. What is your story? Dr. King once stated “we are not makers of history but are instead made by history.” How has Martin Luther King Jr.’s story influenced your own? This is today’s journal prompt from…

  • Dear 2012 Me:

    I almost started with “you don’t know me, but. . .,” but you DO know me!  I am you but the year is now 2013.  What should I tell you now that I have survived the year you are about to begin?First I would tell you to stop fretting.  Stop thinking about what is going…