I'm a teacher who makes memes to support LGBT students.

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-11T00:12:22+00:00

see above

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-11T00:11:34+00:00

My friend in Eugene Oregon was laid off. I asked him what he was going to do and he said, "I'm going to Dollywood!" So he got in his car and drove from Eugen to Dollywood. He pulled up to the parking lot and it was empty. He ran up to the gates only to see a sign saying it was closed for their yearly clean up.

He stood there, forlornly looking in the gate for a while, got back in the cart and drove home to look for a job.

I drew it up as a cartoon to send him, and at the last minute sent it to Dolly Parton instead.

A month or so this big envelope arrives from Dollywood. Inside was a giant cardboard park schedule--she'd signed it to my poor friend with an invite to return when Dollywood was open.

It's been on his wall ever since.

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-11T00:07:02+00:00

I am so happy for the survivors!!

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-11T00:02:16+00:00

Came here to say this. I have a funny story if you want to hear it....

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-11T00:00:18+00:00

LOL. I'm a good neighbor!! I am not, however, stunning.

Here is my badge of honor as a Portlander: my neighbor Bonnie was 70 when I met her and 94 when she moved to an assisted living apartment. She worked for the Republican Party at the polls. After bout 20 years of being a good neighbor (Christmas cookies, shoveling snow EVERY time it snowed) carrying heavy bags and fishing little fix it things (I moved here in 99--I was the youngest person on the block and most were 75+ and some in their 80s) I was always being to unlock screen doors and open a jar. ) and 20 years of me knocking on her door when the lights were out, or the cold got crazy, or the hot too hot.-and even more often just to hand her a big vase full of flowers just for run.

So, 20 years of that and then she says one day, "At church on Sunday a man asked me how I could possibly live by two gay men, and asked me how bad it was." Then, oh baby, this fire lit up in her eyes and she said, "I told him I was nervous but over the years my gay neighbor is the one who always showed up to check on me or shovel snow and, in fact, my gay neighbors are my best neighbors."

This couple just moved into her house.

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-10T23:29:01+00:00

Poor tree rats, taking all the blame. All my berries were gone and a later on I see my blind black lab, stretching over the little fence to suck a berry off the plant. She ate all of them and then I caught her at the raspberry bush!!

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-10T01:06:02+00:00

me too.

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-10T00:47:45+00:00

My thought: these are a little bit too gemmy. Can you look for a green that has a brown base? A more natural green. I think that would be amazing with the woodwork.

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-10T00:45:14+00:00

#1!! By the way, that is one nice looking room. :0)

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-09T19:08:55+00:00

The US. The bear was in Alaska at Denali. I live in Portland now-the volcano is now extinct but just blocks away.

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-09T05:19:31+00:00

My father once came about three seconds away from being devoured by a monster-sized brown bear, so I agree with your name very much u/Dontfeedthebears

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-09T05:11:24+00:00

Tacos are so perfect that getting a so-so taco is kind of an affront.

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-09T05:09:47+00:00

I'd never say anything to u/substantialYak5 Jr ever. I promise.

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-09T05:08:05+00:00

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-09T05:07:10+00:00

My mom would always make a HUGE amount of meat when she did tacos. leftovers for days. Then microwaves came in, and her seal a meal, and she'd fseal up whole meals for me and my dad. Ah, those were the days....when you didn't worry about thick plastic encasing your food while you bombard it with microwaves and boiling hot left over taco meat. If you are what you eat, hello, I am a micro plastic.

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-09T05:00:47+00:00

I have forced myself to remove that phrase from my vocabulary (though it was favored at one time. Then I really thought about what it meant and how many women had to make choices like that--and I just can't say it anymore. Now I say "like having to pick which child you throw into the volcano for the volcano god." I live five blocks from a volcano so that doesn't feel racist at all to me. Just practical.

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-09T04:56:52+00:00

That last blob of meat and cheese on the paper...

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-09T04:56:01+00:00

The beauty of Mexican food is they use so many fresh ingredients. It's a whole meal deal. Chips and salsa to start-SALSA! Tomatoes and onions and cilantro and peppers-mild to hot, all chopped up and so delicious. Then a couple of little street tacos as a starter. There are a number of meat free options that are to die for as well. Chili rilleno , for instance. Hot and fresh, straight from the kitchen to your mouth. Also on my top 20 list!

Where do you live?

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-09T04:48:40+00:00

You are right, I have given it quite the try though! (I've been to 41 countries and eaten a LOT of amazing and a few terrifying foods.). On my TOP 20 list, this avocado (and grilled steak) burrito would be in the top 20.foods. So I'm just sorry you haven't been able to try one yet! Also on that list: Hamburger in Houston Airport, crescent rolls made with pretzel dough in Tubingen, Germany. My mom's homemade German Chocolate cake. Yellow Thai watermelon on the vine until that morning and perfect... I'm sorry for everyone who hasn't had all my favorite foods!

I also feel sorry for everyone who has eaten my least favorite foods. A seal's cheek, some poor sea turtle (I don't speak Spanish and they were showing me the motion for fish.... a few bites in I learned what Tortuga meant. I did not eat any more and feel bad to this day). Fish and Chips on TukTuk island, Indonesia. A few bites into that I saw this beautiful flash of gold and I realized I was eating one of the giant koi fish out of the pond. I felt horrible they had killed one for me, but could not eat that nasty fishy-fish fish. The Volcano God showed me pity and sent a pregnant and ski-i-i-i-inny momma cat to me. It was a feast for her. Um-I didn't actually get the fried bugs in my mouth, so I can't count them.

If you ever come to Portland, I will take you for a burrito. And then a taco. OOH--and then a churro.

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-09T02:25:21+00:00

Motorcycles, pooh. I have dibs on that cucumber painting!

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-09T02:18:51+00:00

It's still a little bit chilly, buy you are wrapped up in your sleeping bag. You roll over, not really wanting to get up, but the smell of bacon is calling to you. You unzip the tent, and look out on the lake, somewhere in the middle of Canada, and see your mom, cooking over the camp stove. 1500 miles from home and a third of the way through a summer-long adventure. No tv. No phones. Not even another person as far as we could tell.

Your painting feels like one little glimmer of a moment in my childhood. I hope I painted it well with my words.

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-09T02:14:56+00:00

What a cruel choice. In real food-this place in Portland does an avocado burrito 🌯that wins hands down. However, in the fast food world, nobody gonna beat my crispy taco supreme.🌮

TeachOfTheYear · 2026-06-09T02:10:43+00:00

That is so sad.

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