St. Louis is like a fairy land to me. Huge networks of roads meander, cross, go over and under each other. Power cables drape across roads and houses like tinsel. Drive five minutes in any direction and you wind up in an entirely different town, without ever leaving suberbia. There are niche hobby stores that take up multiple floors of a mall. ( Read more... )

This feels like a good week. Actually, it feels like a great week. I took Monday off, cleaned up the house some. I got my performance appraisal at work and confirmed I am doing well. We've done some exercising, and some WoW. Just in general, everything is awesome ( Read more... )

"If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong ( Read more... )

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Day 01 - Introduce yourselfDay 02 - Your first love ( Read more... )

The teachers, future-teachers, and interested folks in the audience ought to read this New York Times article, Building a Better Teacher. Warning right now, it's LONG. But it's fascinating! It shows what two teacher trainers are doing to try to improve teaching techniques--that is, teaching teachers how to teach more effectively. The article ( Read more... )

It is interesting being married to a member of HR. You might think of human resources as the bloodstream of the company--they deliver oxygen (money) to the cells via payroll, and they fight germs (workplace problems) that could bring an organ or the whole company to its knees. Hearing Steph's war stories is like being able to peek into my own ( Read more... )

I remember, back when I was in school, I wrote dozens (nay hundreds) of essays. Many of them were in the tortured Five Paragraph format, but nearly all of them required a Thesis: the argument you are trying to make. And my teachers, apologetically, would mention that the original, true definition of an essay had little to do with making an ( Read more... )