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In reply to the discussion: Why I had to leave DU and the long journey back. My first post in nine years. [View all]Teacher of the Year
(79 posts)40. That was one of my last posts
If my jumbled up memory is correct. (I remember everything that happened but the order of events....so much to keep track of!) I never closed my old account, after the hack I never got a new password and just left it fallow.
Rowdyboy... one of my all-time favorite DUers. I was under orders I was going to be fired if I said I was gay, and my husband and I got married on live television. That kind of made some people angry. II wanted to tell RowdyBoy so bad.
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Why I had to leave DU and the long journey back. My first post in nine years. [View all]
Teacher of the Year
Apr 2024
OP
II have a feeling I will be writing a lot about karma in the coming years.
Teacher of the Year
Apr 2024
#4
I don't share everything, even with my husband, and am guilty of trying to hide injuries
Teacher of the Year
Apr 2024
#34
Your persistence inspires me. I will be looking forward to your posts now that you're home again 👏
Deuxcents
Apr 2024
#13
{{{{{phylny}}}}}. No one's a nobody here. Everyone who posts contributes.
highplainsdem
Apr 2024
#19
Welcome back! And kudos for all the good you've done, all the battles fought for all the right reasons.
highplainsdem
Apr 2024
#16
I met the Australian Principal of the Year, with whom I am now friends.
Teacher of the Year
Apr 2024
#85
Wonderful! More long-form posts like this, please! Glad to see your new incarnation.
keopeli
Apr 2024
#23
I do remember DonRedwood esp your poignant post to RowdyBoy, who'd passed before you could tell him
hlthe2b
Apr 2024
#29
Absolutely stunning. Welcome back with open arms, & so proud to give the 100th Rec
Hekate
Apr 2024
#51
Oregon State Teacher of the Year? WOW! This fellow Oregonian says "YAAAAYYYYY!!!"
calimary
Apr 2024
#61
By providing your old screenname you've given them the opportunity to "out" you once again.
rwild1967
Apr 2024
#64
I think it's safe to say that that your upcoming stories will have an eager audience.
DFW
Apr 2024
#74
Wow! I just read some articles and your Wikipedia page. Those administrators really crossed all boundaries
tblue37
Apr 2024
#78
The last time I checked it, it didn't even have the Supreme Court stuff in it.
Teacher of the Year
Apr 2024
#89
I'M bitter about it! It,'s all so unnecessarily, gratuitously cruel and destructive. I think you never fully recover
tblue37
Apr 2024
#92
Welcome back! Some will still come for you if you post things they dont like though
oldsoftie
Apr 2024
#80
It was written order! They handed me a copy of it and asked me to sign that I had read it.
Teacher of the Year
Apr 2024
#86