This year for Lent I let everything fall apart. Primarily, my belief that if I practiced some technique carefully and fervently enough, I would feel good. For the second year, I let my abstention from alcohol and chocolate go. I picked up meditating again for a while, and then I let that go, too. I […]
Read More Giving UpBarkley Andronovich was a difficult dog. I gave him the Andronovich when I was reading a Russian novel. Not War and Peace. (Hey, when you’ve read War and Peace you’ll work it into conversation, too.) Probably Anna Karenina. Russian novels are so comfortable to read, and the people are so itchy. Barkley was itchy. We’ve […]
Read More Requiem1. “Necessary but not sufficient condition.” Geometry, 1992. Math is generally taught as if it is a tango, not a time to get down. Tango is too rigid for me. I never got to get down in math class the way I could when I was writing a paper. “Necessary but not sufficient” was one […]
Read More The Best Lessons I Learned In SchoolI didn’t say this because I wasn’t sure I should. I’m a teacher, and I’m also a human being. I know, I know, it’s hard to believe. First I don’t sleep in my classroom… then this. People from the National Writing Project don’t ask me to be ashamed of spending time writing. They softened my […]
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