Your Best Technique: A Triumph of Teaching
Today I address the crisis of needing to prepare a new syllabus for freshman composition. After so many years of teaching, I confess my excitement
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Today I address the crisis of needing to prepare a new syllabus for freshman composition. After so many years of teaching, I confess my excitement
When my daughters were toddlers and learning their colors, I took them on “Rainbow Hunts” in nature. We’d look for every color–red, orange, yellow, green,
Today my oldest reminds me of a huge problem with scientific inquiry. She explains that if you go looking for what you think will happen,
This morning, my youngest finds the shed exoskeleton of a cicada. She can hardly believe it. She’s heard the news about the seventeen year wait
This morning I find myself covered in cat hair. We haven’t brushed our kitties in a while, and I remember the importance of weekly brushing.
I return to my blackberries after a summer away. What I love about blackberries is that they thrive when you let them be. Nobody looks
I forgot to blog on Monday. I seriously just forgot! I can’t believe it. I haven’t forgotten to blog in over three years of daily
My husband veers off onto some unpaved back road in a blind attempt to reach the banks of the Mississippi River. My youngest wants to
We visit a little coffee shop in St. Charles called Picasso’s. You wait a while longer for artful coffee. It’s delicious. And like all truly
It’s so bright as the thunder ceases that I just hold my phone over my head and snap whatever it can see. The storm ends,