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
168 episodes
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
Question for a Cleric
A child asks a question about lives...and cats.
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Season 1
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Episode 148
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1:54
Could the Creator Ever Make Another Thing as Grand as That? (Short Poem)
The author reads a super short poem he published with a clever whimsical twist at the end. Fits right in with TEACHER TAILS. And if you admire humming birds even better.
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Season 1
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Episode 147
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1:31
Why My Student Cries When It Rains (Migration Issues)
The author notices one of his female students cries when it rains. He asks why and finds out her parents work the fields. He also discovers many other things about her and her 6 year old brother.
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Season 1
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Episode 146
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3:46
Interview With Scientific Skeptic - Susan Gerbic
The author interviews Susan Gerbic - a Scientific Skeptic. She debunks psychics, mediums, fortunetellers, soothsayers, astrologers, etc. The New York Times (Feb. 2019) wrote an article about her revealing a fraudulent celebrity psychic. S...
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Season 1
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Episode 145
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28:46
