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A little bigger, with longer ears…

April 17th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Conversation between two of my 7th graders today:
S: I just finished a great book! The Incredible Adventure of…something or other. (I didn’t quite catch the name.)
A: Is it about mice?
S: No, it’s about a rabbit. Why’d you say that?
A: Because those adventure books always have rodents.
The kid’s not wrong!
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Observation

September 11th, 2007 · No Comments

It’s September 11. I saw a headline on the front page of a newspaper this morning remarking on “Six Years Later.” And I realized: that means my 7th graders were 6 years old. Their awareness of the world around them has existed only in a post-9/11 world. They will remember 9/11 [...]

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Let us pause and appreciate the modern world

January 17th, 2007 · No Comments

It only takes $5.60 and one week to get an envelope full of letters from students in a Boston suburb to students in a rural Ghanaian village.
The global infrastructure is an incredible thing.

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Ghana update: born on Sunday

May 27th, 2006 · No Comments

Quick Ghana update:
Except for the last rabies shot, I am done with my vaccinations. I am impervious to disease! (How I wish that were actually true…) Yellow fever, rabies, MMR (measles mumps rubella), hepatitis A/B, polio, TDAP (typhoid diptheria pertussis), meningitis. I start my malaria pills in a couple of weeks [...]

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In the Old Man’s egg

January 18th, 2006 · 3 Comments

I just checked out The Neverending Story for the first time in my career as a librarian. This is the book. It was the first adult book I read. Right after the movie came out I found it on my parents’ bookshelf. (Why did they even have it? It’s not [...]

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