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I love to read – part 1
Since I was tiny, I have consumed books like I breathe oxygen. My parents started me on this path early, encouraging me to sound out words in books as soon as I showed an interest in being able to...
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I love to read – part 2
There was a time in my life, from middle school through college, when I rarely read a non-fiction book for pleasure. As a younger kid, I read many non-fiction books, about astronomy, archaeology and...
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Unfinished
This is the pile of books on my bedside table. I have started reading all but two of them: Surfing Through Hyperspace and Genius. Am I making progress on the pile over this mini-break for...
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Mid-January 2009
I apologize for the extremely uncreative title. But this is a catch-up post. It’s mid-January already. The marking period ends next week and all the kids are overwhelmed with projects and tests....
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Giving 2
I win. You know how it is really fun to find someone exactly the right gift, and they didn’t even know they wanted it or even suspect it as a possibility? And then they react to it, and you feel all...
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Another one
It’s going to be another one of those weeks. The end of another marking period, grades are due on Friday next, I have a backlog of grading to do. Well, at least I am not taking any online graduate...
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Opportunity
One of the things I love about attending conferences is the chance to meet people and have great conversations. Then there are just those who I get to meet. I got to meet Paul Hewitt several years ago...
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Mini-break!
Last weekend, we had a big snowstorm. Maybe you heard about it. Maybe you were in it. Maybe you listened to the NPR reporters going on and on about it, heard about the government shutdown, and...
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Today
Break from Japan posts (more are coming, I promise!) while I write a bit about my life at this very moment. In less than three weeks’ time, I will be back in school with students. I have a tentative...
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Awesome Evening of Science
Yesterday when I got home from school, I caught the train into the city and met up with my husband. We had dinner at Sang Kee Noodle House and then took a taxi to The Franklin Institute in...
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