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{ Monthly Archives } September 2009

Maybe It’s in the Pith

Is this how this works? [An aside: Creating this picture reminded me of Greg's explanation that "the truth is shy," something that I'd like to frame within the context of learning soon.]

Bookroom Discovery #1

As mentioned earlier, I’ve been helping out with an intersession class being taught in our school’s bookroom – a cavernous wonder of boxes, dust, and occasional cockroaches. Mr. Carlson and I have found a few noteworthy discoveries during our time in the room. I will be highlighting two or three of them here. The first [...]

Work in Progress: A Few Words about Narrative

Life is a series of stories. We are long unpredictable strands of narrative – here we intertwine and mesh, there we crosshatch and dither in little checks, we are not a uniform pattern or even a patchwork quilt. We are intersections that occasionally knot and collapse and move in dissonant trajectories. What do we tell [...]

“It only jelps me which is very important. !!!”: On Blogging

If you have a spare moment, please check out the blog a group of intersession students is currently contributing to. All posts (aside from the sporadic teacher post from Mr. Carlson or myself) are written and (possibly) edited by the students. Yes, there will be occasional typos, grammatical, and spelling errors  – isn’t that part [...]