Archive for December, 2001

A Toast To Teaching For 2002

Well, parties are about to begin, the corks are about to be popped, the toasts about to be made, the horns about to be tooted, the balls about to drop, the baloons about to fall, the confetti about to be thrown, the Auld Lang Syns about to be sung; the reflections are about to be [...]

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Kind Teaching

Season’s greetings to all, and to all a brrrrr! Well, almost brrrrrr. It’s beginning to feel a tad like Christmas just as Christmas is passing. I went out walking in my grubbies a bit late this Christmas morning. In the gray light of overcast dawn, a semi-bundled up runner came from the other direction. We [...]

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That Loveable Cowardly Lion

The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la….. I’m singing this in the middle of December! I walked out this morning in shorts and a cut shirt. Quickly tore off the shirt and threw it on the lawn after a few steps down the driveway. A confused amarylis stood tall about to bloom. An [...]

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More on That Blessing

A very early good morning to you. They say joy to the world at this time of the year. I say, you got to be kidding. This is not a time for St. Nick. It’s the end of the semester. I have been gathering my strength this week upcoming challenge. No, I’m not talking about [...]

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The Virtue of the One

A very early bird good morning to you all. It’s a gray early morning. A slight nippy mist is in the air. As I walked, up from below came a wormy issue. I started writing on the slate sky reflections of bits and pieces of a conversation I had Thursday afternoon with a colleague. I [...]

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