Author Archives: Scott Smith
Doc Smitties
My son was 4 when my father died, so I don’t have many photos of the two of them together. I think this might be the only one where I am in the shot with them. This photo above was … Continue reading
“No Openings”
In the previous millennium, when most people still wrote résumés and rejection letters on typewriters, I found an envelope in my mailbox from a company to which I’d sent my rez a few weeks prior. I bounded up the stairs … Continue reading
Pure Substance Content
I finished up the school year yesterday and this morning I revisited something I wrote before I started working in education four years ago. Predictions about the future have never been in short supply. However, tech predictions have seemed nearly ubiquitous … Continue reading
“Attention K-Mart Shoppers”
Joe, a former kickball teammate, and Little League opponent, wrote a blog entitled “Blue Light” that, among other things, was a reference to Blue Light Specials that Kmart department stores did in their glory days in the 20th century. In … Continue reading