Teatrekkers could be seen last night at the first of our 2012 Winter Salon evenings. With a dozen friends we learned from Mary Lou and Robert Heiss (the authors of four really excellent books) just a tiny bit about Chinese teas: its origins, how and where what we were tasting was grown, how to brew [...]
100 Day Project – Day 51 – 2:09 p.m. SNOW – a big snow storm in October! A snow day today! There’s much to say about the craziness of it, the no electricity, have fun talking and cleaning odd things and doing other chores that require no electricity, and hot cocoa on the sterno! But [...]
Tags: break·Cold winter evenings·family·hot cocoa·learning·October·snow·snow day·teaching·Work
Day 100 Project – Day 19 – 7:53 p.m. The excuses, oh sorry, reasons, have begun. Why my reading response is late, and when I’ll get it in to you — okay? I’ve learned at community college that many excuses are reasons; and incredibly legitimate reasons. Just today a young woman called to tell me [...]
?? Some days I’d like to be a teacher of long ago (okay, I’d like to believe it’s long ago, but in fact I know there are still teachers who teach this way) who gave the same lesson to all the students each day. I am always surprised each September (why is it I forget?) [...]
Tags: curriculum·Howard Gardner·learning·lesson plans·Multiple Intelligences·photo·quote·teaching
Because of the slow internet at the Holiday Inn in Boxborough Ma (hard to understand as it sits right next to Cisco); I didn’t get to do any blog posting this week while at seminar. Hubby and I have arrived home this evening and over the next few days, I’ll post a few photos and [...]
Tags: Hancock Shaker Village·Harvard·Meeting House·Shaker·Shakers
Hubby and I went to a great fundraiser evening for the Turners Falls River Culture – if you missed it, you missed some great fun! There was great eats and drinks, a silent auction and a live auction (auctioneer was Lou Ekus of Holy Smokes – great auctioneer by the way!)! The hats had been [...]
Tags: black tie events·bridges·fundraiser·hart hats·Turners Falls
Recently the Boston Area Shaker Study Group met at Hancock Shaker Village for lunch and leisure time, and then trekked to the Benjamin Osborn House located in Mt. Washington, MA. The Osborn House was the first stop on Mother Ann Lee’s “missionary” trip in New England in 1781. [...]
It’s a bird. No, wait — it’s a plane. No, wait — it’s a horse. NO WAIT — it’s a zebra! A zebra? It’s Vermont. Are you sure it’s not a horse? Nope, it’s a zebra? Are you sure? YEP!! A zebra in Vermont.
This post is long overdue – but I imagine anyone reading this has likely too much on their plate as well!! But what’s in your cup? When hubby and I were recently in Savannah, we went on a Foodie Tour – more about that another day, and one of the places we stopped was Perk [...]
Tags: coffee·Cold winter evenings·Perc·photo·Savannah·travel
A few photos as we pack up and ready ourselves for our return to New England work and weather tomorrow – what a great stay we had in Savannah! Southern hospitality is very real!
