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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Back from Nova Scotia
It’s a good feeling to be able to walk into your place after a good long-weekend trip, backpack and luggage end-journey stuffed with rainjacket, half a box of crackers, ticket stubs and half battery-drained electronics.. Bag full of worn clothes, boots separately stuffed into Shaws plastic bags, bearing happy traces of mud and pebbles [...]
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Geography rules! (but my knowledge sure doesn’t..)
Okay, so I took at look at this website http://sporcle.com/ from a recent Boston Globe article (how can you resist the descriptive title of ‘mentally stimulating diversions’?!), and gave the world geography quiz a try. Basically, there’s a blank mercator projection of the earth with all the countries outlined, a blank box at the [...]
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Incubator Proposal voting– Ideas for Grassroots Improvement of our Schools
Over the past month or two, I’ve been involved with an interest group formed through the Boston Leaders for the Future of Education (BLFE). The general premise is that it is a call for educators, community members and allies to come up with innovative ideas to improve systems, structures and/or partnerships for the benefit [...]
Conversation with a student
I really miss some of that one-on-one instructional time with students, I’m finding. Proof of… had a year-end wrap up meeting with one of my teachers today at Madison Park, and a stop-in hello from one of his students that I’ve gotten to know turned into an hour conversation of shaping the summer plans, [...]
Salty and sweet foods
I have to admit, I have a particular weakness for things salty and sweet (though I guess that falls right in line with the whole snack food/processed food industry. Call me a willing participant. Go Kraft!)
Snacking on some 100 Grand bite size candy bars, picked up a bag of Doritos the other night, and really [...]
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Sunday near end of June (already!): Sofra, a tune, and the church across the street
Setting up for a few hours with S. on a drizzly Sunday afternoon at the nearby coffee place, Java Jos. Wrap up and wind down in steady progression for a number of pieces– my work with my group of teachers in their individual schools and classrooms, the Teaching Ambassador Fellowship, Campaign for Civics work [...]
Eclairs, Evening Rain, Mom, Teacher Leadership, a trip to be planned, and a Variegated Hawaiian Schefflera
So no main theme in particular, but random pieces stitched together that make up most of a person’s days, perhaps.
1. Ate a good humor ice cream eclair bar (an easy carryover from childhood to adulthood.
2. Am still very much enjoying the rainy June weather (wet, cool and altogether not rushing into [...]
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An exercise routine to try
Well, it goes to show you how communication of what something should be depends so much on the medium that’s used to the convey the idea, and the way ideas translate through them. (Or, of course, through the stubbornness of the interpreter). I’ve been happily giving the Dr. Oz 7 minute workout a [...]
Through the Children’s Gate: Excerpts from Third Thanksgiving (part 3)
[Access part 2 here: http://jamesliou.com/liouwp/?p=328]
And then you become conscious of the play of people on the street. Why are these same people hanging out here, minute after minute and hour after hour… Why is this young messenger still standing in front of the auction house? Could be nothing… but go around the [...]
Four Days in Nova Scotia