I’m devouring The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal, by Parker Palmer, Arthur Zajonc, and Megan Scribner right now. It’s a good read. It’s a thought-provoking read. It’s an inspiring read. It gives me hope. One premise put forth by Palmer is the idea that a key virtue in higher education that is [...]
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Now Here’s An Idea: Hospitality In Higher Education
Posted in Books, Change, Community, Higher Education, Learning, Liberal Arts, Teaching, tagged Books, Change, Community, highereducation, Learning, liberalarts, Teaching on September 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A No-Brainer
Posted in Adult Learners, Books, Experience, Higher Education, Learning, Life, PLA, Reflection, tagged Books, experience, knowledge, Learning, PLA, reflection on June 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I am reading a book right now recommended by a friend called How We Decide, by Jonah Lehrer. She recommended this to me when I needed to make a decision and had consulted her; her statement to me was, “You actually already know the answer. Now you’re just trying to rationalize it.” And then she [...]
Installment #5: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Books, Learning, Toddlers, tagged adultlearners, Books, Learning, Toddlers on December 17, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Installment #5 is all about books, because each and every day, Mac reminds me just how important books are. Books have become Mac’s beloved friends: they comfort him when he’s upset, they entertain him when he’s bored, they help him wake up and go to sleep, and they teach him. We take Dr. Seuss’s ABC [...]
Just For Fun
Posted in Books, tagged Books on September 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Several Christmases ago, my grandma was wearing a black silky shirt covered with colorful sequins in various shapes of Christmas decorations. It was a pretty flashy shirt for a 90-year old to be wearing at 9am in the morning. The time for Christmas dinner came and she declared that she needed to go change into [...]
Sherman Saved The Day
Posted in Literature, Toddlers, tagged blog, Books, kids on June 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Elayna Alexandra (Flodin), one of the student bloggers in my collection, was thoughtful enough to send me a copy of a children’s book that she illustrated called Sherman the Frog Meets the Snow Princess for my kid Mac. Mac has a thing for frogs, and boy howdy, now he has a thing for Sherman! This [...]
Vanity Books
Posted in Literature, tagged Books, Literature on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently wrote a post about a cool new website called Wordnik. I have some words and phrases that I would like to contribute to Wordnik because, well, it might be neat if other people could find a use for them as well. So I thought I would start my contributions here. The first phrase [...]
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