This was initially written in response to a facebook meme… (started Jan 6 2022, but I am finishing up this re-imagined response on the first day of the next year and if I had more time…) I figured the rant belongs here instead. Or lecture. Or wishlist. Because when you talk with actual teachers (not […]
Category: Making a Difference
On the Cusp of 2023… (repost from fb)
[originally posted on facebook on 29 Dec 2022] On the cusp of the new (calendar) year, I am thinking about ways to make teaching a little less stressful, and time at home a little more serene. I am revisiting productivity (organizational and scheduling) strategies that, in the past, helped but were abandoned over the last […]
Early Morning Musings (on the last Friday of 2022)
This article from the BBC, originally published in April of 2022 got me thinking: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220412-should-we-be-eating-three-meals-a-day How much of our modern ailments are directly related to our modern conveniences? How much of our modern concerns (climate change, pollution, inflation) are directly related to our modern “advances?” And perhaps most importantly: What can I do, in my […]
Avoiding the brachiosaurs in the room…
The third quarter of our school year is almost at an end. But that’s not what I want to write about. There is a war in Eastern Europe, started by a madman with access to nuclear weapons and a previously demonstrated and re-confirmed complete disregard for the lives and safety of his own citizens, let […]
Twenty years ago, twenty years from now…
At 5:45 am (west coast time) I was jolted out of my sleep, startled by an image in that dream of a plane crashing into a building. It was the first official “homeschooling” day for us, and I was eager and excited to get everything pulled together for the beginning of our grand adventure as […]
Review: Thoughts on Belonging through a Culture of Dignity
I have been participating in a study group over the summer on the text by Floyd Cobb and John Krownapple. I’ll update this post when the course is completely over, but here is what I wrote for the final chapter in the online LMS: I LOVED the PSSM (The Psychological Sense of School Membership, Goodenow […]
Prophesies
Dark times, dark of intellect, dark of hope, dark of prosperity, dark of joy, dark of freedom, dark of life. Current events. Cautionary tales a half century old (and more), based on suppositions and “if this, then that,” Toffler may have been right, Roddenberry designed it… the ancient hermits in the desert railed against it. […]
Lest we forget
Many of the people in the photographs in this collection died as the direct result of Nazi oppression (restricting movement, access to employment, access to healthcare, etc — based on “race”). Others would have died a natural death by now anyway even without a war. Some people may still live who experienced these times first-hand. […]
NaPoWriMo Sixth Post
I will stay until the wind changes, said Mary Poppins to the children. Like Mary Poppins, I came when the wind was right. And when the wind changes, I must go. The life that is torn between service to this cause and that person is a life of pilgrimage; wandering as need and opportunity are […]
Politics – a long view
I would like to know why a man who has had multiple wives and mistresses isn’t called out for trying to shame a faithful wife for her husband’s infidelities? I would like to know why the Republican party decided to nominate a man with no plan, with no demonstrated ability to interpret or even follow […]