On this birthday of Edna St. Vincent Millay, a quote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends — / It gives a lovely light!” In 100 days I expect to retire from a job that has helped to burn my […]
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100 days, but who’s counting?
February 22nd, 2014 · Comments Off on 100 days, but who’s counting? · Education, Important People, Musings, My Goals, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work
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Merlin speaks of learning…
October 30th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Musings, Quote of the Week, Reading, Teaching & Learning
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see […]
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October 28th, 2013 · Comments Off on · Education, Important People, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning
“The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.” Evelyn Waugh The “Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keiller” reports that today is this author’s birthday, and provides us with this quote. Just this past week, I’ve been having some […]
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Firsts…
August 27th, 2012 · Comments Off on Firsts… · Children, College students, Education, family, Grandparents, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. ~ T.S. Eliot “Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant “Here’s to […]
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Teatrekkers come to Salon
January 29th, 2012 · Comments Off on Teatrekkers come to Salon · eating, Food, Important People, Musings, photo of the week, Teaching & Learning
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 […]