Saturday, May 9, 2015
You Get a Gold Star
11:41 AM

 Dear Dad, It’s amazing what a gold star can do to make even the most strenuous, tiring, or boring work worthwhile. Last month I gave my students a Dewey Decimal number each day to go hunt for, and if they could find it and tell me what was there, they got a gold star. Honestly, I wasn’t sure they would buy it, but boy did they. A...
Having it both ways
11:40 AM

Dear Gillian, I feel both old and young today. Very tired but very invigorated. It’s one of those days when nothing seems as it appears. The spring semester ends this week. But while classes are over, I’m faced with a pile of complex final projects. The constant parade of bright students young enough to be my grandkids reminds me of how gray...
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