1) Early in the first of my back-to-back classes this morning I realized I was missing an important tape. As soon as class was over I quickly shoved the cart into the next room and went speed-walking down the hall to my desk in the planning room. No tape. The [...]
The toughest problems are the real life ones. Prices are not even dollar amounts. You must take friction into account. Resources are sharply limited.
Sometimes I am slow to realize the problem exists. This year I have identified one of the trickiest teacher problems: checking homework. [...]
I’m nearly healthy again, and the stale, dead calm created by my lack of interest in life has been shattered.
It occurred to me the other day that Dr. Chilton publicly put Aunt Polly in a situation that was absolutely unendurable to a woman of her pride. Refusing to consider reconciliation until the other person seeks you out is hardly altruistic. And so I decided to re-read Polyanna as well as (drum-roll, [...]
I was disturbed upon learning of Alan Greenspan’s retirement plans. I’ve often thought he was smarter than anyone else in government — could we possibly do without him?
After listening to large portions of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings I am perfectly convinced that John Roberts is an unusual combination of intelligence [...]
1) Initially I assumed that the thumbnail-sized head bobbing in the water belonged to a turtle, but as our canoe drew nearer I realized the swimmer was actually a slender brown snake. I leaned forward, fascinated. He looked fixedly back at me, frozen in place. Then there was a flurry of [...]
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