Mrs. Bowers was my third grade teacher. Like the first and second grade I do not have a lot of specific memories of this class. I remember the classroom, layout and other visual things like the other grades, but I don’t have many specific highlights from the class. Mrs. Bowers was a nice lady from [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Mrs. Verla Griffin was my second grade teacher. She was a very old woman with gray hair. I don’t think she was married. She gave her life to teaching 2nd graders. She may have taught others. I’m not sure. She was old and exactly what you would think an old lady from that time would [...]
Mrs. Garrison was my first grade teacher. She was a nice lady from what I remember. I went to Wingate Elementary, the old school building which was torn down and built anew in the 80’s. Mrs. Garrison was a short lady. We used to take naps everyday. We would bring our blankets and lay them [...]
Public school was torture for me. It was a horrible time in my life, which made up the bulk of my childhood. My parents had five boys in the space of seven years and they were ill-equipped to care for us. I’m sure school was a welcome relief. As a parent now I find it [...]
Perspective brings it own interpretation. And I have mine. Also our perspective changes over the years and the way I looked at things as a kid and the way in which I interpreted them is different than the way I would interpret things as an adult. Knowledge, life experience, relationships, hardships, education, societal changes and [...]
That is his real name. He changed it in the ‘80’s and has made quite the name for himself since then. His new name is Randy Travis. Randy and I went to school together beginning at East Union Middle and into high school. I don’t think he graduated, but it is hard to remember now. [...]
I think the probation was two years. I had to meet with a very nice man during that time. To be honest I think he said eventually that we didn’t have to meet anymore and the probation eventually went away. I don’t remember meeting with him for long even though the probation lasted longer if [...]
I was sitting in the library reading a newspaper minding my own business. Teri Absher came into the library to let me know that someone wanted to see me in the office. Teri worked in the office though she was a student in my class. I saw Teri for the first time when I was [...]
B & E does not mean beginning of the end, though it could be. In the legal world it means breaking and entering. And that is what applies to me sad to say. I had a drug business in school. Robby supported me with marijuana and I would sell it for him. I had a [...]
Mrs. Bolden was a nice 10th grade English teacher. I don’t think she ever did anything wrong. She was nice, loved her job, did her job well and probably never caused anyone an ounce of trouble. That’s makes it all the worse in light of what I did to her class one day. I learned [...]
