Author Archives: Becky Dingle

About Becky Dingle

I was born a Tarheel but ended up a Sandlapper. My grandparents were cotton farmers in Laurens, South Carolina and it was in my grandmother’s house that my love of storytelling began beside an old Franklin stove. When I graduated from Laurens High School, I attended Erskine College (Due West of what?) and would later get my Masters Degree in Education/Social Studies from Charleston Southern. I am presently an adjunct professor/clinical supervisor at CSU and have also taught at the College of Charleston. For 28 years I taught Social Studies through storytelling. My philosophy matched Rudyard Kipling’s quote: “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” Today I still spread this message through workshops and presentations throughout the state. The secret of success in teaching social studies is always in the story. I want to keep learning and being surprised by life…it is the greatest teacher. Like Kermit said, “When you’re green you grow, when you’re ripe you rot.”

Let’s Make the Next Pandemic be Kindness

Dear Reader: I was thinking the other day that the best thing to come out of the pandemic has been the abundance of kindness I have felt in my daily life that I didn’t experience as much before the virus … Continue reading

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The Anchor of Castaway Change

Dear Reader: Yesterday the post was about sharing the two securities all humans have on earth-sunrise and sunset. Early yesterday morning I was out planting in the garden and got to see the sun rise ” on my shoulders.” Do … Continue reading

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Things Always Look Better in the Morning…

Dear Reader: As you can imagine the transition from typing on a regular keyboard (on a desk top computer) to learning all the ‘in’s and out’s’ of a chrome book has been challenging. It has left me sleepless on a … Continue reading

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Saving “Private Boo”

Dear Reader: God does have a sense of humor…as I was scrolling through some old documents in “Old Faithful” … I came across this humorous piece of a revised “tech psalm.” I looked up and winked “Good one God!” THE … Continue reading

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The Disappearing Act

Dear Reader. I just woke up to check on the blog post I wrote yesterday-when I didn’t see it at 6:15 this morning I thought I must have scheduled it incorrectly and I would just hit Publish Immediately and take … Continue reading

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Finding a New Direction Through Change

Dear Reader: Before the mischievous leprechauns turned my world upside down last Wednesday ( St Patrick’s Day) I took writing a daily blog for granted. True, occasionally, the cousins -the computer gremlins, would play tricks with me, but on the … Continue reading

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Let’s Do This!

Dear Reader: I am on my HP Chromebook…but before any applause…believe me this first day out has been an exercise in “Trial by fire.” I discovered that this expression alludes to the medieval practice of determining a person’s guilt by … Continue reading

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Learning from “Big Red” and New Clones

Dear Reader: I am slowly getting a little more comfortable living in transition. Before my long-( my desk top computer) time friend ” Old Faithful” had her powers of creating new stories abruptly taken from her she had given me … Continue reading

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Tribute to “Old Faithful”

Dear Reader: Today I started that difficult task of cleaning out my Happy Place in preparation for the new… And though I know my soon to be chrome book can go anywhere now-it is important to me that I return … Continue reading

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Why I Never Wanted to be a Trapeze Artist

I remember, even as a child, being terrified while watching the trapeze artists let go of one swing for another… and wondering whether the artist on the flying trapeze made it or not … depended on the timing! Suddenly I … Continue reading

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