Tag: Retired Teacher

• A Conversation with Denise Burrell, Gifted with Grit

  

  It could have been seen as a defiant statement against resolutions, the kind we rattle off at the stroke of Midnight on Dec. 31 of any year. Instead, Denise Burrell quietly set aside the need for lofty goal setting and decided to learn a new skill instead. She thinks it was cross-stitching. She was in […]

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  November 9, 2022

  2022, Artisans, November 2022

  Amy Truitt, Brooks Burrell, C-Street City Market, Cello, Chabom Tea and Spices, Claire Burrell, Clairebrooks Cabin, Conductor Amy Andreassen, Denise Burrell, Dr. Michael Murray Cello, Empathetic Teacher, Family Band Eclectica, Gift of grit, God's gift, Grit, Homemade Incense, Homemade Soap, Ideas for traditions, Instead of New Year's Resolutions, Judge Don Burrell, Lifelong Learner, Missouri, Missouri Philharmonic Orchestra, New Skill, New Skills for Seniors, New Traditions, New Year's Resolutions, Pianist, Rescue Dogs, Retired Teacher, Selling Homemade, Shop Local, Small Business, Soapmaking, Special Education Teacher, Springfield, Stick with a task despite obstacles, Stubbornness, Symphony Concert, Tenacity, Traditions, What to learn?

• Fuel Your Curiosity

  

  Curiosity is a very curious thing. It can be fun or annoying, innovative or creative, a natural instinct or a practiced skill. No matter how you look at it, curiosity and the desire […]

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  September 5, 2021

  2021, Lead Outta Love, Neighbors, September 2021

  Amazon Wish List, Convoy of Hope, Curiosity, Education, Haiti, Haitigo, Lisa Berg, Missionaries, Retired Teacher, Sam Berg, Teacher

• Earline Medcalf

  

  Camdenton R-III School DistrictCamdenton, Missouri I retired to Lake of the Ozarks in 1993, after 34 years of teaching second graders. After settling into a new home and getting everything just right, I would wake up in the morning feeling depressed and useless, thinking, “What am I contributing to the world, especially to my new […]

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  July 5, 2021

  2021, July 2021, Storytellers

  Camdenton, Camdenton R-III School District, Earline Medcalf, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, Retired Teacher, VIPS, Volunteers In Public Schools