Archive for January, 2006

Torture Survivor

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

I have just returned from the dentist.
I dreaded my visit there. There’s an awareness in the back of my mind that terrible things are to come. My dread increased when they mentioned novicane. Oh no, please, not the shot! Anything but the shot!
At times like these [...]

Winston Churchill on Military Secrets

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Note To Self

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Re: Classroom Management
Amazing how much of a difference a bit of accountability can make in the classroom.
It is easy to be less intense than is wise in the classroom…maybe I will only walk around once, or perhaps I will not take paper, pen, and clipboard with me when I walk, half-listening and [...]

C. S. Lewis Quote

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

“…[I]f there was only someone with a richer talent and more leisure I think that this great ignorance [of the Christian ideas in Out of the Silent Planet] might be a help to the evangelisation of England; any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people’s minds under cover of romance without their knowing [...]