Room Karma

My friend Beckie always accuses me of having "room karma" because I usually end up in some pretty fantastic rooms. I was afraid I had lost it because Beckie has topped me the last several meetings, but I profited again at the ASHA meeting in Miami. I arrived early to prepare for a meeting and they upgraded me to a "premium" room for the week. The only sad think was that I was there by myself. It was a very good meeting and once again, I wish I could convince our administration that our students profit from our attendance and participation. We did squeeze in some good Cuban inspired food and someone even tried to teach me the Salsa. I made it back to Little Rock yesterday at Noon (meaning I left the hotel for the airport at 4:15 AM). It did give me time to meet Keri and Ian for some Cub Scout activities.

Ian is trying to earn some special Arkansas patches that have been discontinued. He completed requirements for the Arkansas Heritage patch on Saturday with his Mom and I joined them on Sunday afternoon as he worked on his Toltec Mounds award. It's all about archeology and artifacts surrounding these ancient site outside Little Rock. We were looking for animal tracks and we discovered two pottery chards. We followed all the rules and reported them to the Park Ranger who took us out to the site. They were bagged and documented for study but the archeologist said that they appear to date from about 700AD. We are going to try to follow their study and find out more about them. Can you believe Ian got to report a pottery find on the day he was there studying archeology.

Harding is off this week and I hope to spend time getting ready for all the students to come over during the next several weeks. It is hard to believe that we are going into the final weeks of the semester. When I think how much I must cover in the next several days, it makes my head spin. Hope all have the best Thanksgiving ever, especially those of you "stranded" in Italy for the holidays!