Jul 9, 2024
Looking back on my career in education, working with at-risk teens in a variety of settings, one thing that was becoming clear to me while I was in the middle of my work is painfully obvious with the benefit of distance. Reward and punishment, point systems, levels,...
Jul 7, 2024
The late night chanting of the insects is loud enough to be heard from inside; out on the back deck it’s almost deafening. We’re into summer now, trying to keep enough water on the garden to keep the vegetables healthy until the next rain and getting done what we can...
Jul 5, 2024
As I close in on my seventy-second birthday, I’m spending more time thinking about being old. I applaud the elders who can still run marathons, jump from airplanes, maintain the musculature of a much younger person, and so on, but I’m not one of those folks. Actually...
Jul 4, 2024
The noise from the fireworks is getting louder as the evening goes on. The official celebration downtown, about fifteen miles away, ended not long ago and the backyard celebrations are cranking up. There was a time when I enjoyed fireworks, even went to Boomsday...
Jul 2, 2024
Sweeping back the ocean. I have friends with strong feelings about AI, and they talk about limiting its incursion into one area of life or another. I’m afraid this is doomed to failure. Thirty or so years ago, when the internet began to enter public life, I...
