A Mule’s Tale

We went to Snow Mountain Ranch a couple weekends ago. We started going a couple of years ago at the recommendation of a friend. We love it up there. Except for the weird patriarchal registration system (my wife makes the reservations, but everything defaults to my name) and the fact that we’re just about the […]

Carving Gallery

Learning to Carve

In mid-July, 2o20 I decided I would commit to really learning to carve. I have been an off-and-on woodworker for many years, but had done little free carving in that time. This blog was primarily an outgrowth of me wanting to record what I learned as I progressed, so I’ll be posting about the different […]

Too much information

It’s time for back-to-school. I’m a high school science teacher and we’re returning to all online learning in about a week-and-a-half. We had our first all-district professional development today. It was awful… not because the information wasn’t useful, but because they were so gung-ho to present all the awesome things they had learned from preparing […]

Truth and Authenticity

Mr. Szameitat discusses the prevalence of counterfit carvings and considers the implications of expansion and contraction when making them.

HOW BLOOD DONATION LEADS TO UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE

I had my my eight-week pint o’ blood donation today. I was never a regular donor before my mid-thirties. In February of 2015, my wife at the time, Shannon, went into the hospital (you can read all about her story on her blog) and used five pints of blood and plasma to keep her alive […]

Hi! I’m Mr. Szameitat

Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal? I want my students, family, friends, and the rest of the world to know my thoughts and be able to connect with me. I tend to “notice” a lot of things about the world, and I think other people might find those ideas valuable. […]

Eight and half years later…

I guess I didn’t get around to using this site much. I found it again and figured I should probably update it… The world is very different from eight and a half years ago. Perhaps over the summer (June 2020) I can start getting my thoughts down about things I have some experience with. Teaching […]

Hello world!

Shannon has just informed me that it is something called nablopomo. Which apparently is a movement to block everyday for the month of November. I seriously doubt I can stick to this regimen, but it’s been on my list of things to do so I’m gonna go ahead and try. It also is Movember. Which […]