Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts
Short stories. No annoying ads. No mercenary pitches. Just stories to warm your heart. Vetted published articles/tales/short stories (L.A.Times, Newsweek, Seattle Times, Teacher Magazine, Chicken Soup, Miami Herald, etc.) by Paul H.Karrer about: Kids, Teachers, Parents, Education, Korea, Incarceration, Samoa, Peace Corps, New Zealand, California, Connecticut, Teaching, Dogs, Chess, Multicultural Marriage, Foods-real or imagined and more. Most are light-hearted.
Episodes
182 episodes
Trench Warfare and a Noble Peace Prize
The author reads his complaints of yard warfare with burrowing enemies. And...perhaps offers a Noble to the President if he can resolve the conflict.
It's Shiloh - Tales of Heinz Treviranus 15-17. (Teacher Tales)
The narrator reads Heinz's final three stories. They encompass, awe, love, listening, being present, and appreciation.
Teacher Tails. It's Shiloh 12-14 (Tales of Heinz Treviranus)
Three stories of Heinz Treviranus about a fish, a surprising money transfer, and just knowing when your kid is sick. They occur in Fiji, Samoa, New Zealand and Germany. Each story is uplifting and full of wonder.
Teacher Tails - It's Shiloh Chp 9-11
The author reads from Heinz Treviranus' book It's Shiloh. Chapter's 9-11. A story from New Zealand's military. Another about a dying father's request. The final story is about missing a flight but catching it anyway.
It's Shiloh (stories 5-8)
Stories are read from the book - It's Shiloh. A collection of amazing incidents, occurances, and happenings in the life of Heinz Treviranus. Heinz was born in Samoa but also lived in Fiji, Germany and New Zealand. He passed away in November of ...
Shiloh 3 &4
Two strange Tales by Heinz Treviranus of Samoa and Germany are read. One is about a lost family hidden after the Spanish Influenza and an unexpected letter. The other is of the power of love. Both involve Germany, Samoa, and the fickle unexpect...
Tales from Shiloh - Meat Pie
Teacher Tails podcaster reads mysterious and compelling stories from a dear friend's book SHILOH. Two short stories will be read each time. The friend, Heinz Treviranus, passed away recently and this book is his gift to those who will lis...
Raccoons, A border War, Trump, The Noble Peace Prize
The author explains of his on going border war. Mentions Trump. The Noble Peace Prize, Mountain Lion Urine and Raccoons....
The Murder and Torture of 27 year-old Viktoriia Roshchyna by Russia.
27 year-old Viktoriia Roshchyna is a well-known name in Ukraine journalism. She was investigating the Russian Black Sites (Torture and off the map detention centers) in the occupied Ukrainian Oblasts (provinces) She was detained and not heard f...
The Gremlin Wants Greenland
The author discusses why Trump wants Greenland. How he came to be aware of it. How some US billionaires want to develop it. A brief history of the Dorsett and Inuit Natives and the Vikings. Treaties which already exist with Denmark and would su...
Ukraine - The Rest of The Story
Podcast 170 The author reviews some Ukrainian history as well as a long list of Russian aggression in the area. He also refers to a previous Podcast #15 In which he interviewed a former student who volunteered on the Ukrainian/ Poli...
A Day at School 32-34
A child's day at school is revealed through rhyming verse. Hopes, fears, laughs, and tears. What a kiddo sees and hears etc...
A Day at School - kids' poems (p.30-32)
More rhyming verse from A Day at School delve into the fears, tears, jeers, and sometimes leers from the perspective of an elementary school kiddo.
A Day at School p27-30
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.
A Day at School (p.23-26 Rhyming Verse - A Student's trials/tribulations at school)
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.
Reasonable Gun Control Shouldn't Really Be So Hard
The author reads an opinion piece about gun control he had published in V.O.M.B (Voices of Monterey Bay)
Too Churchy - A Doctor Goes to Kenya
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. B...
Vegetable or Fruit - A Question for Marriage
Teacher Tails Fruit or Vegetable...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.
Getting Away From School
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.
Music To Soothe the Savage Beast
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 ve...
Teacher Tails - A Day at School (A kids' book of rhyming verse) 19-22
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
A Day At School - Simple pleasant rhyming verse - (A kids' book)
The author reads rhyming verse from his Kids' book. A Day At School
Ex-Peace Corps Volunteers (1978-1980 - Samoa) Discuss/Endorse Peace Corps
Three RPCVs (Return Peace Corps Volunteers) discuss their time in the Peace Corps in Samoa (1978-1980) Dr. Michael Baughan, Paul Karrer - Teacher Tails Host, Harvey Gerry
