by Brian | Oct 16, 2009 | Brian Crosby
20 years ago today I was living with my wife of all of 2 months in the San Francisco Bay Area. I had just gotten home from school and settled on the couch to watch the Giants / A’s World Series when the place started shaking and the power went out. I glanced out...
by Brian | Sep 30, 2009 | Brian Crosby
Me to one of my 4th grade students: “Hey, you’ve been out for 3 days, did you have the flu?” Student: “No, that’s what we thought at first, but I just had a fever, was throwing up, achy, and had a...
by Brian | May 1, 2009 | Brian Crosby
Cable in the Classroom included this blog in their Professional Development article entitled “Bookmark This!” In their May issue. Learning is Messy is included with really first rate blogs, so check out the article if for no other reason to find some good...
by Brian | Apr 26, 2008 | Brian Crosby
Seismograph – University of Nevada, Reno, 11:45PM last night Reported to be a 5.0 quake  UPDATE: Quake now said to have been 4.7 … cracked some house walls in northwest Reno, busted some sprinkler pipes, busted the flume used to bring lumber down to Reno...
by Brian | Oct 3, 2007 | Brian Crosby
This is one of those … “I know I haven’t been blogging much…” posts. Well I haven’t, but you may have picked up here and there that I have been unusually busy. If you’re a classroom teacher you know how it can be. Today...
by Brian | Sep 3, 2007 | Brian Crosby
I’ve been off the grid this Labor Day Weekend camping 2 hours south of Reno in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains near Silver Lake. Friday night I got up about 1am to walk our fidgety, demanding Australian Shepherd. No big deal, found a good spot for a dog to...
