Mr. Locke’s Classroom

Two years after my departure from full-time public school teaching, my name and “reputation” seem to have lingered on after me. Someone pointed this website out to me, and lo and behold — I’ve been rated! Looks like three out of four reviews are positive, but I sure did make one person mad. Of course, [...]

So, in case you haven’t noticed, I’m cleaning house a bit.  New theme (still working on it), a few new posts (getting back into the groove), and I started categorizing all of my blog entries since 2004.  Yeah, they were all in one big category called “uncategorized.”  Since I’m doing it little by little, there’s [...]

This is for Noemi, Jonathan, Willer, and Mrs. Grimes (and anyone else who had two or more years invested in blog-back comments). You remember that file you “exported” that looks like a bunch of code when opened? Open it again, but using the notepad program (right click on the file, and select “open with” then [...]

This is mostly for the old-school bloggers. Dillema–in case you haven’t noticed (and if you haven’t, just click “comment” and read the banner at the top of the pop-up box) our comment host, Blogback, is going out of business in October. Which means all of our comments for the past two years go with it, [...]

Ok, so it may be a pretty dramatic way to get someone’s attention, but Victor deserves a post anyhow. This past weekend, I went with Victor (and his mother & brother) down to Austin to help him move in and get acquainted with his new home–University of Texas at Austin. Needless to say, the trip [...]

So, I guess I took the summer off from blogging. It wasn’t permanent, though–I believe too much in this to let it go permanently. This summer has seen some big changes for me and my family. I’ll try to explain and update somewhat in this post: Goodbye Sunset Yes, it’s official. Most of you probably [...]

The picture is of our son, Grady, and the distinguished gentleman for whom he is named, Dr. Grady J. Walker. We made the trip up to Tulsa a few weeks back, I just haven’t had a chance to post any pictures until now. Both Gradys were pleased to make each other’s acquaintance. At the moment, [...]