Kevin of the Meandering Mind hosted the Day in a Sentence feature this week and asked for a metaphor. I haven’t contributed in a while, barely subsisting all around and not feeling much good for anything, frankly. But with my new, turned-around focus, I’m thankful to be able to be a small, sometime part of this community of talented educators and know I should do more. =)
Here’s my sentence (which I see now, in retrospect, could use some thankfulness):
“Working hours for an English teacher are those tiny, so-called “standard” paper clips; they never stretch nearly enough to clamp together all the to-be-graded papers of one kind from one class.
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