Winter has arrived.

I just spotted our first pair of ruby-crowned kinglets in the old hackberry tree outside the kitchen window. They are delightfully quiet, busy little birds. I forget how much I enjoy watching them until they come back each year around the holidays.

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Influential Teachers

Recent events lead to me to think about the process of learning and influential teachers I have known. It seems important that they were not only fantastic teachers, but taught also in the way they conducted themselves and lived their lives. Here is a short list:

Carolyn Miles – nurtured a love of reading, overlooked my [...]

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You know the end of the semester is approaching…

when craziness breaks out on the drag. My friend, Mister “I had a lot of fun”, sent this.
 

 
Somewhere, Carl Orff smiles in his earthly repose.

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good scrapin’

Everyone who loves old photos should check out the fabulous layout andilynn created for a photo of her grandmother. It knocks my socks off.

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more Heber

My WW post this week is a photo that was taken in Heber City, Utah during the 2002 Winter Olympics. This steam locomotive is run by the Heber Valley Railroad. During the Olympics they used it to take visitors from Heber up to Soldier Hollow where the cross country events were held. Once there, they had mule [...]

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Just call me Nasturtium

I just read this post at Traversing the Midlife Minefield. It struck a chord. She decided to revert to her maiden name after divorce and her sister laughs, “What does it mean to you?” It seems to me that the only person a name should mean anything to is the one who bears it.
I’ve had my own problems with names. [...]

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pathophysiology keeping me up at night

Can’t sleep…can’t think…can’t function…exam today. I am in pathoverload. The first exam predisposes to a particular sort of stress induced psychosis. Can’t even come up with eye candy for ww. Here’s an amusing link. adopt a microbe

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mile marker 2005

This photo of Linus and Lucy was taken two years ago. They are munchkins. They came to me in the autumn of 2004 after living the first two years of their lives in a bedroom. It took a few months for them to adapt to their new surroundings. It was great watching them discover a whole [...]

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in the beginning

When I was little no one told me how chaotic and beautiful life can be. For some reason it often only appears so upon reflection. It never ceases to amaze me how seemingly endless moments of misery and boredom knit themselves together into a fascinating story. Such is the magic of time and perspective.

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