Zooming on Zoom!
With the new school year breathing down everyone’s neck, many educators face teaching online using software like Zoom, and they’re not happy about it. Perhaps teachers don’t know how to […]
Enriched Environment
Sunny Sundays!
In celebration of all things sunny, and to promote an enriched environment, Parking Suns now features every Sunday on many Sundays a different YouTube music clip about the sun! Today it’s Ben Platt performing “Waving Through
How I’m Keeping Fit During the Covid-19 Pandemic
As a person with Parkinson’s disease, I suffered a setback once the Covid-19 pandemic hit, and both my gym and my town’s terrific indoor swimming pool closed. Ditto the ping-pong
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My Niece Stars in Two Tampax Commercials with Amy Shumer
Our whole family is thrilled!
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The Sun in Poetry
Forget Me Not When in the morning’s misty hour,When the sun beams gently o’er each flower;When thou dost cease to smile benign,And think each heart responds with thine,When seeking rest
Back in the Saddle!
Hi everyone! I know, it’s been ages. But I’m back in the saddle and hope to return Parking Suns to its former glory soon. For over a year I’ve been
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Adapting to Online Teaching with 2nd Graders
I work at a public charter school in the Bronx, New York City’s poorest borough. We teach pre-K through 5th Grade, and my primary job is to train and support
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A Word that Drives Me Crazy, Yet Nobody’s Heard It Before
The one word that drives me crazy is a word you’ve never heard. That’s because I made it up. The word is “senilicize.” If “infantilize” means “to reduce a person
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Reader Response: “Grief”
One of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2020 is to explore death at an intellectual level by reading what greater and more articulate minds than mine have written on the
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The Sun in Poetry
On the Hill-Side A Memory You lay so still in the sunshine, So still in that hot sweet hour— That the timid things of the forest land Came close; a