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
174 episodes
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 172
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25:19
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 171
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10:20
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 170
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9:15
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 169
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2:05
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.
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Season 1
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Episode 168
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2:19
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.
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Season 1
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Episode 167
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2:37
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.
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Season 1
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Episode 166
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2:31
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)
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Episode 165
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13:56
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 165
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3:33
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.
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Episode 164
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4:47
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.
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Season 1
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Episode 163
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7:47
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 162
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9:57
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
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Season 1
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Episode 161
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2:52
A Day At School - Simple pleasant rhyming verse - (A kids' book)
The author reads rhyming verse from his Kids' book. A Day At School
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Episode 161
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2:50
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
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Season 1
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Episode 160
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29:49
Hanging Out To Dry
The author reads a story he had published in Chicken Soup for The College Soul.A female student is surprised at all the attention she gets as she drives her car.
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Episode 159
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1:54
Emma's Ducks
The author reads his Chicken Soup Story of female students dealing with a totally blinding blizzard.
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Season 1
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Episode 158
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2:46
Dementia - Mom You Have to Try
The author reads his Chicken Soup Story - Mom, You Have to Try. A family suffers as the grand mother starts to lose her memory. But after she is gone they learn she really really did try.
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Season 1
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Episode 157
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3:37
A DAY AT SCHOOL Poems -13 & 14
The author reads 2 of his rhyming verses from his kids' book A DAY AT SCHOOL poems 13 & 14. All have a kicker at the end.
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Season 1
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Episode 156
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1:27
Slavery at Sea and Tuna
The author reads an article he had published about slavery at sea and the tuna industry.
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Season 1
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Episode 155
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5:43
When Alzheimers Can Be A Good Thing
The author and his sister deal with a difficult mother who changes for the better due to Alzheimers.
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Episode 154
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5:47
Jury Duty
The author explains some realities of Jury Duty and he has some recommendations,
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Season 1
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Episode 153
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5:12
I'm On A Roll
Author describes his dislike for skate-boardering until he tries it.
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Season 1
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Episode 152
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3:38
