in education, there's a constant buzz over the choice to teach either content or skills (namely the ability to Think Critically) in primary schooling. Remember briefly, those Critical Thinking(!) sections in every literature, science, and math textbook you encountered -- those are the products of this discussion. Pedagogues are unsure whether ( Read more... )

I used to be worried that, as a certain sector of the educated, altruistic (?) population became concerned with overcrowding, only stupid people would reproduce ( Read more... )

It's literally a Tuesday in mid October...but ( on the figurative other hand [of course]) I feel the Wednesday mid-afternoon hump of summer camp passing by me and the coming of wildly energized, hormonal Thursday. Suddenly, I am fully involved. I realize my insular social group and branch out, maybe only to reach a goal. And I forgive. I open ( Read more... )

You know how you do, Emma?
Yes. Yes, I do!
Well aiight. Here they are:

The Living

Looking at you Mr. Joyce - I do your brain injustice.
and when I read your freezy mumbo-jumbo
it's not my brain that salivates
as much as my mouth; when the food is
ripe, and strong, and crushing me
unjustly
beneath it.

Personal Appendages

If you write, you are a writer
exhale ( Read more... )

(Not posted on April 8th)

I'm a few days early for the annual review. Forgive me - I have time and a good atmosphere. Thanks, Bob Boilen.

Things happen are happening do it all the time. And there's so much I don't do and see and know.

I like these states of duality, in which I can think "I've lost part of myself in college....let's talk about it, ( Read more... )

THE POOL PLAYERS ( Read more... )

At the bar the other night, a guy walked up to me and asked "What are you worried about?" He was drunk, sweaty, had trouble focusing on me. But something about his tone seemed genuine -- not just some feigned conversation piece on the way to ridiculous gyrations. In a beat, I said, "I'm worried that people feel like they need to leave a legacy and ( Read more... )

I'm trying to decide whether to read poetry to my campers.

The Last Song

driving the freeway while
listening to Country and Western boys
sing about a broken heart
and the honkytonk blues,
it seems that things just don't work
most of the time
and when they do it will be for a 
short time
only.
well, that's not news.
nothing's news.
it's the same old thing in
( Read more... )

Til Friday (June13)

Emma Byrne
Camp Echo
115 1/2 Virginia Ave
Petersburg WV 26847

June 15-21

EB
Older Member's Conference
160 WVU Jackson's MIll
Weston, WV 26452

June 23-27
EB
Camp Frame
1362 Camp Frame Road
Hedgesville, WV 25427

June 29-July 4
EB
Glenwood Park 4-H Camp
1500 W Main St 
Princeton, WV 24740

July 6-18
EB
Alpha
160 WVU Jackson's MIll
Weston, WV 26452

For fun ( Read more... )

Ro I hope you read this:

I LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU! Happy Birthday! Happy Earthday!

I'm late sending your card -- so I'll just bring it home this weekend. I miss you and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Roses: poses, talk like moses
if you down and got a frown
girl, she anti-lacrimoses
she the best, she up to test
from her noses to her toeses.
she my sis, give ( Read more... )