Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity. – The Prince and the Pauper Supposing is good, but finding out is better. – Mark Twain in Eruption; Mark Twain’s Autobiography That’s all I have to say today. It’s been a day of deep learning, excitement over the transformation that learning brings, and the [...]
100 Day Project – Day 35 – 9:20 p.m. Yes, that is right. Today I’m thinking about Einstein. I’m reading his biography. I really enjoy biographies. It’s a really great way to learn so much about a lot of things; not just the person the book is written about. Of course, this assumes, a well-written [...]
100 Day Project – Day 31 – 8:57 p.m. Today I read Llama Llama Red Pajama – not once – but twice! Did you? As part of JumpStart’s Read for the Record Program, I enjoyed reading the book to a group of early childhood pre-service teachers, and a group of women who donated books and [...]
100 Day Project – Day 29 – 8:03 p.m. Less is more in so many ways in life. Today, personally, I could sure do with less grief. Too much to explain, but too many losses too quickly in the last three months. Professionally, less is more in terms of my assigned readings for my classes [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 28 – 12:49 p.m. First a word about the numbering of days: For those of you who care, and frankly, I’m not sure anyone does, somehow I skipped from Day 22 to Day 28. In my real life that was only 3 days – the weekend – since I last [...]
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Today I enjoyed an hour of sheer joy!  Along with several of my fellow Kiwanians and community volunteers, we read either one-on-one or in small groups to local children in our community’s early care and education centers. Our club takes part in a program called Reading is Fundamental. We fundraise and purchase quality picture books, [...]
