How do you “reach to teach” students? I don’t know. I’m not sure that e-mail, journals, discussions, varying styles, or whatever methods and techniques anyone may use to reach students is the seminal issue. And, I don’t know if there is any one formula, one set of methods and techniques for successfully reaching students, that [...]
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FROM PERSON Y: I just finished reading about Samantha and I’m stuck. I can’t stop myself from asking over and over again, Louis — how did you know? Not about the things that Samantha alluded to regarding her walls, but that you needed to “back off”. As I read your “thoughts” I was fighting a [...]
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It was crisp and black this morning. There was nothing on my mind. After I returned from my walk, I grabbed a cup of freshly brewed coffee, went into the spare bedroom where my computer never sleeps, and continued an off-list discussion I was having with an e-mail friend about how and whether we professors [...]
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Great walk this morning. It was one of those “not too….” mornings: not too cold, not to warm, not too wet. Just right. As I gleefully glided through this air, that was so was clean and crisp it reminded me what being alive was all about, I was thinking some more summery thoughts about my [...]
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Happy New Year! I was out early because I went to sleep early. I don’t do up New Year’s eve with merry making, horn blowing, streamer throwing, and champagne. Maybe that’s because I came within a hare’s breath of being killed by a drunk driver at this time of the year back in 1960. So, [...]
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