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The Golden Notebooks: March 2015
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Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Monday, March 23, 2015. Family legend has it she once had five boys call her in a single night to ask her to the same dance - I can believe it looking at this picture. Happy birthday Baubs. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Kafka with a Happy Ending," in Open Letters Monthly. A Walker in the City" in Open Letters Monthly. Hitler's Bathtub" in Narrative. My Brooklyn," in Jacobin. I'm a te...
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The Golden Notebooks: May 2014
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Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Wednesday, May 21, 2014. The Intractability of Op-Ed Habits. The first paragraph of T he New York Times. S obituary for Vincent Harding. Scholar and co-author of Martin Luther King's brilliant and always-relevant anti-war speech, "Beyond Vietnam," refers to that speech as "polarizing" and notes that it "touched off a firestorm," condemned by Life Magazine and the NAACP. A Walker in...
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The Golden Notebooks: January 2015
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Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Wednesday, January 7, 2015. 8 Approaches to the Papers/Grading Dillemma. A while back, Rebecca Shuman had a piece on Slate. That proposed a simple solution: stop doing it. Stop giving papers, stop grading them. Like a lot of her pieces, it was a combination of a solid insight with broad generalization and pure- Slate. Of them in any class. And Rethinking Schools,. 2) Try to give st...
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Straight Outta Davis: February 2007
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007. It's Dan's last day of work at the Dept of Finance, after 7.5 years! I hope they give him a good send-off. Two Picasso paintings were stolen. From his granddaughter's house in Paris. These thefts of major art works are mysterious to me. What is the motivation to steal a painting you will never be able to sell or display publicly? Did the thief just want to hang it on his bedroom wall? Posted by Katherine @ 11:45 AM. Monday, February 26, 2007. Owen took a fall. Owen found out...
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Straight Outta Davis: October 2006
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006. The workers arrived this morning to tear the cedar shakes off the side of our house and begin wrapping it with insulation and wire. It will look entirely different by the end of the day. The kids are very excited for Halloween. There is a party/carnival at Douglas's preschool this afternoon which should be fun. We will just trick-or-treat on the block. Thanks to Eileen for sending the Halloween books, which they have enjoyed! Need to work on that I guess. It is really windy tod...
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Straight Outta Davis: August 2006
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Thursday, August 31, 2006. We quite enjoyed this story this morning. Poet's love letter is a hoax. LONDON, England (AP) - A British writer was duped into printing a fake love letter in his latest biography - complete with a coded four-letter insult aimed at him. More at the link. First grade seems to be going well for all the first graders we know in various classes. Good news all around. Posted by Katherine @ 10:30 AM. Tuesday, August 29, 2006. Fron McKinley Park yesterday:. Kids on the slide. Posted by...
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The Golden Notebooks: 8 Approaches to the Papers/Grading Dillemma
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Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Wednesday, January 7, 2015. 8 Approaches to the Papers/Grading Dillemma. A while back, Rebecca Shuman had a piece on Slate. That proposed a simple solution: stop doing it. Stop giving papers, stop grading them. Like a lot of her pieces, it was a combination of a solid insight with broad generalization and pure- Slate. Of them in any class. And Rethinking Schools,. 2) Try to give st...
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The Golden Notebooks: Marlene Sanders, 1931-2015
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Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Thursday, July 16, 2015. Marlene Sanders, 1931-2015. For my research reading Bonnie Dow's excellent " Watching Women's Liberation 1970. One point she convincingly makes is that coverage of the movement was not as uniformly hostile as we might expect. Part of this was due to women like Marlene Sanders. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Walker in the City" in Open Letters Monthly.
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The Golden Notebooks: Some Stupid Test
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Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Over the course of my sabbatical, I'm hoping to write a range of personal reflections on teaching. It's a hard topic to talk about. A lot of the formal scholarship is notoriously bad, which makes a lot of teachers hesitant to read about it, which is a shame. Last year, Michael Kinsley had a moving piece. When you work with students who didn't have that expe...
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