Author: michardillo

• No Gobble Gobble for Dinner

  Enjoy this short comic piece of mine recently published by The Daily Drunk Literary Magazine! You may enjoy it even more if you knew my father Roy Blanchard! https://thedailydrunk.com/f/no-gobble-gobble-for-dinner    

  michardillo

  July 30, 2020

  Essay

• Book of the Day!

  Enjoyed the original format, the movie, and now reading the Young Readers’ Edition by @scholasticteach @scholasticbookclubs Can’t wait to teach it next year! #amreading #amteaching #amwriting #lessonplans #summerreading #teacherlife Thanks @marthastewart48 for the lunch idea! #lunchonthepatio watermelon 🍉 mozzarella 🧀 #hiddenfigures #blacklivesmatter

  michardillo

  June 24, 2020

  books

• Shielding our Differences

  The summer before my first year of full-time teaching in middle school literature and English, I looked over the textbooks I would be using. As a second-career teacher with no formal education courses behind me, I had no idea how to plan a unit, but I knew how to read and analyze a piece of…

  michardillo

  June 23, 2020

  Essay

  epistolary novel, Holocaust, Jane Yolen, literature, middle school, New York, Oswego, Prentice Hall Penguin, reading, short story, Suzy and Leah

• Book of the Day!

  Can’t wait to dive into this one! Beautiful day, great coffee, great author. Loved #deadwake and have read several books on #churchill already. #amreading #teacherlife #summerreading #readingteacher #communitycoffee #ErikLarsonfanclub

  michardillo

  June 22, 2020

  books

• The “Pan”-Demic Experiments

  “Sometimes you feel like a nut / Sometimes you don’t / Almond Joy’s got nuts / Mounds don’t” was the jingle used during the 1970s to advertise two of my favorite candy bars.  And, likewise, sometimes, I feel like doing culinary research for several hours, shopping at multiple grocery stores and markets, gathering stand mixer,…

  michardillo

  June 14, 2020

  Essay, food

  Almond Joy, baking, brownies, cake mix, chocolate, cinnamon, coffee cake, Community Coffee, cooking, COVID 19, from scratch, Mounds, pandemic, prepared mix, Southern Bites

• Peace

  #alllivesmatter #prayforpeace ☮️ #prayforjustice🙏 #prayforequality🙏🏽 [image not mine]

  michardillo

  June 2, 2020

  Essay

• Silver Linings

  Today is April 11, 2020, Holy Saturday. It’s a gloriously sunny day in metropolitan Washington, DC. Spring, as they say, has sprung. The pink dogwood in my front yard is blooming, and the white dogwood in my backyard is doing the same. It’s brisk and windy, but beautiful out—out where we are not supposed to…

  michardillo

  April 11, 2020

  Essay

  COVID 19, crocheting, family, Maryland, MCPL, reading, self-isolation, social distancing

• The Virtual Un-Reality of Distance Teaching

  https://washingtonfamily.com/2020/04/08/distance-learning-during-coronavirus/

  michardillo

  April 8, 2020

  Essay

• At Sixes and Sevens

  We are a family of four, but as a family in isolation during COVID-19, we are but three. Our younger daughter lives and works (currently from her home) in Los Angeles while our older daughter lives here in Maryland with us. She works from home most days so this social distancing has not been much…

  michardillo

  March 28, 2020

  Essay

  Chaucer, COVID 19, Eva Peron, Evita, Gilbert & Sullivan, Google Classroom, HMS Pinafore, Jeopardy, O. Henry, Richard II, Shakespeare, Sixes and Sevens, Zoom

• Another Kind of Break

  I’ve been writing regularly, but my last post here was about how impatient I was for Thanksgiving Break. I recounted how I had spent the summer in a boot due to a bad break, a broken ankle. I just couldn’t wait for five whole days in a row off from school and being free to…

  michardillo

  March 13, 2020

  Essay

  ADW, Archdiocese of Washington, Break, Catholic school, COVID 19, Easter, Lent, Mass, Shrine of St. Jude, Stations, teacher