2025 A to Z Challenge Blog for the letter T

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April 23, 2025 Tomorrow is the big day. needless to say, I haven’t slept well the last couple of nights, hence the meme this morning. My posts are loaded to the site and ready to take you to the end of the month. I may pop in and change that, depending how I feel. We’ll see. My bag is packed for the hospital in case something does go wrong and I need a sleepover. My sister-in-law is arriving today to look after me for a few days. Did I mention that my husband is an accountant, knee deep in taxes and the deadline for most filers is April 30? Not the best time of the year for him, but when they gave me a date, I wasn’t going to ask for a do-over in a couple of months. With her help, we’ll manage.

Today’s letter is T and I suppose it makes sense to make it about teaching. Over the course of my teaching career, I wore many hats. I started off teaching French Immersion Kindergarten, and then did French Immersion Grade 1. Like all teachers back then, permanent jobs were few and far between, so I ended up on the Supply list filling in all over and at all levels.

I ended up with a long-term contract teaching English in Secondary school, and stayed there for the rest of my career, although I did teach other subjects including French as a Second Language, Careers, Science, Culinary Arts, and the Developmentally Disabled teens in our high school. For a while, I was relocated to an Adult Education school as the literacy specialist, and when that school changed and became the haven for students with Learning Disabilities, that’s where I finished my career and retired.

Education has changed substantially over the years, and to be honest, I enjoyed the earlier years far more than the latter ones, but I’m not going to preach about what went wrong and what went right. Teaching children is important to our survival as a society, but teachers

It’s never too early or too late to learn.

And here’s today’s musical treat.

That’s it. Come back tomorrow for the letter U. Here’s the MASTER LIST https://tinyurl.com/tauke86z

Published by Susanne Matthews

Hi! I live in Eastern Ontario. I'm married with three adult children and five wonderful grandchildren. I prefer warm weather, and sunshine but winter gives me time to write. If I’m listening to music, it will be something from the 1960s or 1970s. I enjoy action movies, romantic comedies, but I draw the line at slasher flicks and horror. I love science fiction and fantasy as well. I love to read; I immerse myself in the text and, as my husband says, the house could fall down around me, and I’d never notice. My preferences are as varied as there are genres, but nothing really beats a good romance, especially one that is filled with suspense. I love historical romance too, and have read quite a few of those. If I’m watching television, you can count on it being a suspense — I’m not a fan of reality TV, sit-coms, or game shows. Writing gives me the most pleasure. I love creating characters that become real and undergo all kinds of adventures. It never ceases to amaze me how each character can take on its own unique personality; sometimes, they grow very different from the way I pictured them! Inspiration comes from all around me; imagination has no bounds. If I can think it, imagine it, I can write it!

7 thoughts on “2025 A to Z Challenge Blog for the letter T”

  3. I will also be thinking about you. Praying for the best outcome and a speedy recovery!

    Thank you for that little science sheet. I will be sharing it with my younger grandchildren.

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