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Starfish
When I was in K-12, there was one thing I did not want to hear at school: “We’re going to have to tell your parents.” That was bad news. Even the threat of such brought amazing compliance on my part,...
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Finding the Right Idea
I’m trying to think of something where finding the right idea is unimportant. Nothing gets going, or keeps going, without an idea behind it, just as nothing gets discontinued without that becoming the...
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Six Inches of Dirt Won’t Fill a Foot Deep Hole
For sure, giving up means the end. Sometimes it’s the thing to do, other times not. That’s the hard part—knowing the wisdom of the moment. The desire to persevere and finish a task energizes students...
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More Organic Carrots in the Classroom, Please
The debate about organic foods is always interesting. Articles can range from minimizing the benefits, to maximizing them, to remaining indecisive. Ten years ago, the English department derived its 102...
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Overcoming Inertia
I do the grocery shopping in our house. It’s been that way for years—a combination of two things: my wife hates it, and I like going, once I get going. However, a second inertia occurred several years...
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From Spectator to Player on the Field
One of my professors made a comment one day in class about football, saying, “At a football game you see 22 players on the field desperately in need of rest and 55,000 people in the stands desperately...
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The Mysterious Love of Procrastination
Procrastination usually doesn’t show up with things we love but with things we don’t. An image comes to mind of a task that is too boring, too long, too difficult, too confusing, or too bothersome—at...
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Keeping the Big View
With any venture of importance comes an initial dream or vision. A big picture forms like wanting to be a teacher. Then comes getting an education in the dreamed of discipline. That’s just the...
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Grades
A bright student and exceptional writer came through one of my classes, but she had no idea at first where she was on the map. She said that none of her high school teachers ever engaged her about her...
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Bridge Over Troubled Water
(Editor’s note: myevette is on holiday this week, so Brian has graciously offered this post to fill her slot.) Promises, promises, we make so many promises—like the ones in the famous Simon and...
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