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The author reads 4 poems from a child's day at school. They are short, rhyming verse and usually have a kicker or twist at the end. All are light-hearted. Hopefully they will make you smile or at least recall those years at school.

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The author reads rhyming verse of an elementary school child's trials, tribulations, and basic survival at school. There is always a clever or tongue in cheek comment at the end. Pages 23 -26.

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The author reads an opinion piece about gun control he had published in V.O.M.B (Voices of Monterey Bay)

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The author reads a story he had published in Shining Moments Visions of the Holy in Ordinary Lives. A doctor friend volunteered for a medical mission in Kenya. But initially he was put off by the religious tone of it. He found it too churchy. But was it?

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Originally published in Chicken Soup for The Soul (First Dates & Soul Mates). The author reads his story about good intentions and a bowl of Coco Puffs from the Korean Island of Cheju.

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Two teachers try to get away from school each day by eating in a car nearby. But fate and a former student alter their quiet and undisturbed lunch. If you are a teacher its very hard to get away from...school.

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The author reads a story he had published in the Chicken Soup Book - Family Matters.

The author's 6 year-old brother annoyingly practiced the piano each morning. The author's 5 year-old sister had a hamster named Hammy. They also had a very high strung mother and an... usually calm stepdad. All of this comes to a whirlwind of connected chaos.

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A DAY AT SCHOOL is rhyming verse about a child's day at school. Issues, worries, incidents, troubles, (real & imagined) cute, and silly happenings. With a kicker on at the end of each poem. Pages 19-22

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