Category: prompts
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Somewhere warm, sunny and blue-watered
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? I’m not a big traveler, but there are a lot of great places I’ve visited. I happen to think that New York and Paris are my two favorite cities in the planet but I wouldn’t want to live…
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The coolest thing I’ve ever found…and kept
What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)? The coolest thing I’ve ever found (and kept) is actually a relatively obscure book, F.O.B. Detroit. I probably need to give you the back story on why this relatively unknown book was such a great discovery for me. F.O.B Detroit was…
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Rob Reviews: The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck
What are you currently reading? One of the unfortunate realities of teaching (teaching English specifically) is most of the reading I do during the school year is school-related. With that in mind, I’ve been plugging along with Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck for a while.…
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The most expensive personal item I’ve ever purchased
Here I thought I was taking a quantum leap forward; getting up-to-speed with what we were told was the next step in the evolution of home entertainment.
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Podcasts I am listening to
Just as people began jumping in the social media bandwagon 10 years ago, we have a glut of podcasts about every topic under the sun; and more continue to pop up every day.
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My favorite school subject
My favorite subject in school was the same one that I teach today: English.
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Unplugging from The Matrix
How do you manage screen time for yourself? How do I manage my screen time? I don’t! That’s not entirely true. I can, and do, take myself away from the screen. The truth is, I don’t put any hard-and-fast limits on the amount of time I spend in front of…
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Not enough time on my hands
Life would give us more to get done, rather than allowing us sufficient time to finish the things we need to do in a single day.
Rebuilding Rob 