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Delani Bleu is an award-winning master teacher who has a passion for blogging and social networking. She struggles with bipolar depression and basic survival in the halls of public education as well as simply trying to survive middle age in the middle of global warming. Once disciplined for blogging "Thresholds and Other Ruminations", she now offers it as a sacrifice to the angry first amendment goddesses.
Ms. Bleu lives with her husband and two sons in the Midwest and has earned a B.A. in journalism and an M.S. in effective teaching.
Reviewed by Anne Boling for Readers' Favorite
Delani Bleu returned to the profession of teaching after a cushy job. While her major was educational journalism this is the first time she’d had the opportunity to teach it. To prepare for the year she took a graduate class to learn the computer programs; quickly she discovered she still wasn’t prepared. After a mere six months she was voted Favorite Teacher by the students; but she knew she was still lacking. Fortunately, Steakboy, Pi and Jedi were in her class and they knew the programs. They tried to teach her but she wasn’t really motivated to try very hard. As May approached she was struck by the realization that her students would be graduating. Not only was she losing her computer whizzes but also her friends, for she and the students had formed a close bond.
Delani Bleu shares her blog/book with readers. Throughout the almost daily entries we learn the trials and triumphs of being a teacher. She shares the anxiety of knowing a deadline is looming and classroom romance is blooming. Previously Bleu taught English and Sex Ed. Her language is a bit coarse, but putting that aside, Thresholds and Ruminations is very funny. Bleu shares much of herself in this tome. I admire her for sharing the ups and downs of depression, bi polar and insecurities with her readers. She is brutally honest, open, caring, humble and funny in a self deprecating way. It is easy to see why her students love her. Delani Bleu proves we’re never too old to learn.
