Lynn's New Job

historic Timken High School

So Lynn started her new job with the Canton City Schools as literacy coordinator for Timken Academy. When I first met her, she couldn't really conceive of teaching in an urban school. Now she's not only devoted to working in that setting, but she also is a passionate advocate for justice in that setting. Yesterday she quizzed a visiting Ohio Dept of Education on the inequities that "No Child Left Behind" is creating for this (and many other) schools.

A position couldn't be more perfect for her growing interest in integrating literacy across the curriculum for adolescents. This is exactly what this job enables her to do. It's a perfect combination of her training, her developing interest and her growing passions for urban schools.

I feel lucky to be married to somebody who's not only so gifted, but also so able to be SO MANY different things to so many different people...

Cue Ben Folds -- "The Lucky One"...



Timken's New Building -- Lynn's Center for Learning will be here.

Gramma & Bampa Came to Visit

"Uncle Charlie" and "Gramma Linda" are the family catch-phrases for labelling over-zealous photographers. With my mom's cool digital camera -- she has obliterated the memory of both of them. Her zest for capturing still moments is astonishing. But we end up with these great pictures!


My mom and dad took the kids to McD's playland, out to buy fabric for this year's pajamas (Gramma Glo is sewing manically these days), played hide & seek with them, and told endless Charlie-Chipmunk story -- a staple element of my Dad's bardic nature...



They made baked hanging window things on Saturday morning. Everyone has bed-head and pajamas (the latest trend in pajamas is shirts dug out of mom & dad's drawers so they can feel our hugs all night long).