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Coming "home"
So, I'm back in Cali after way too long, having partaken of the revels and revelations of Burning Man. A week in Tahoe, followed by Lassen Volcanic and camping in the mountains near Mt. Shasta has reminded me how much I love the wild, high open spaces, and just how damn cold tent camping can be at altitude in september. The drive across the ( Read more... ) -
On mathematics education
I am a high school math teacher. I have taught in "inner-city" NYC schools, and currently work in an affluent suburban district upstate. The school I where I now teach has its share of problems and problem students, but it also has systems in place to identify and assist them -- a major difference from my previous positions, where discipline was ( Read more... ) -
The kite, the kite!
Spent most of my break week in Boston helping w/ N&K's little one, who is ADORABLE! Also exhausting. Don't think there are rugrats in my future. It was great to be out of the CNY gloom -- it snows in Boston, but when it's not snowing, sometimes the sun comes out. How bizarre! Also got a chance to grab dinner with mulderitsme , who was eagering preparing ( Read more... ) -
Boots, boots, boots!
As in ski, as in high-performance, as in wide through the forefoot, narrow through the heel, and with an upper generous enough to encircle my calves-cum-tree trunks. They even match my skis!!! Oh, and they're fuzzy. Now, if it would just stop bloody raining for two full secs, so I could actually try them out...
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Running in the freezing cold
So, I've discovered I love it -- the motion, the not overheating, the smell of the cold air, the calm along the canal (although I got a little freaked out by some guy crashing around in the bushes who appeared to be chasing either his girlfriend or his dog ( Read more... ) -
Raised beds
After the frost, she finds cherry tomatoes still in the garden. Perfect yellow globes cling to drying vines, cold and almost solid to the touch. The windfalls from the apple and pear trees are bruised and treacherous underfoot; she eats half a golden delicious, then drops the the rest back on the ground. Next autumn, she will make pies and sauce ( Read more... ) -
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Sometimes you need to whack upside the head to remind you of who you used to be, before the world started slicing off little pieces.
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Autumn Colors
Went hiking at Highland Forest on Sat, and finally started running again today at Green Lakes...
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Weather...
One of the great things about fall in CNY is that sometimes the sun goes away for a week. Then, just when you've resigned yourself to rain and gloom and rubber boots, it reappears, and the world is so much brighter than if you'd just seen it yesterday. That is all.
