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
171 episodes
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
A Day at School #3. (Survival at school in poetry)
The author reads 3 poems about survival at an elementary school. The BullyThe HandBathroom Stalls
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Season 1
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Episode 151
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2:13
A Day At School - short poems p6-9
The author reads 4 very short rhyming verse poems about the realities of elementary school. All have a kicker on the end. A riddle, puzzle or comment.p.6. The Ridep.7 Reading Hurts My Headp.8 Numbersp.9 What Am I?
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Season 1
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Episode 150
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2:43
A DAY AT SCHOOL (From a kids' perspective - poetry)
A DAY AT SCHOOL is simple rhyming verse about well...a day at school. Humorous and each short poem has a kicker, problem, riddle or final say at the end. About a minute in length each - a read 3 at a time.
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Season 1
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Episode 149
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2:18
