Library Archives - Dallin Malmgren

Is This For a Grade? A Survival Guide for Teaching

RE-TAUGHT and RE-TESTED “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.”  –George Bernard Shaw (coin­ci­den­tal­ly, a high school dropout) “With all do respect for Mr. Shaw and his bril­lance, I have com­plete dis­dain for his atti­tude.  No task is more vital to the sur­vival of soci­ety than the edu­ca­tion of its young peo­ple who attempt […]

The Sixties Kid

He walked back to the door, turned, and fixed his eyes on mine.  When he spoke, it was very soft­ly.  “I don’t know what’s gone wrong, but some­thing has.    I know that before this year I just was­n’t home enough.  I can’t change the past.  But I can see that some­thing has you head­ed in […]

Out of My Hands: Seth Edward’s Senior Trip

I guess every­one remem­bers his own senior trip as being the wildest, zani­est, most rip-roar­ing time ever unrecord­ed in his­to­ry.  Well, that goes for me too, only  I’m going to record it.  We set stan­dards for drunk­en­ness, for fool­ish­ness, and for plain old gross behav­ior that future class­es of Hard­esty High could­n’t equal if their […]

The Bonjour Boys

Dac­ques, it’s time to get up!  I’ve got a big sur­prise for you today.”                 No one can pos­si­bly imag­ine the omi­nous impact those words had on me. Think of the worst pos­si­ble feel­ing you’ve ever had upon being awak­ened. Mul­ti­ply by ten. You’re still not even close. The Bon­jour Boys, a teenage romance and adven­ture, is […]