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 from [...]
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 top [...]
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 of [...]
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, getting [...]
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 [...]
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 with [...]
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 summer) 3. [...]
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 try most [...]
[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 block once [...]
Four Days in Nova Scotia
What’s the measure of a good four day trip? Maybe when you don’t quite know where to start and you go to the default of wanting to start from the beginning– and you already sense that unless you’re telling the story to the one you travelled with (a joint remembering), the immobile or the young [...]