The first thing you must know is that Teachers frequently make atrocious Students.
We’re used to be the ones doing the explaining. We’re used to being in control. Our job necessitates that we move and talk constantly in order to be effective, not sit obediently and listen.
Hence, ironically, Teachers can be really annoying folks to have on the other side of a classroom.
This is to say that when a friend suggested that [...Read More!]
Exactly a year ago, I was spending Thanksgiving alone in Northern Thailand, quietly eating stir-fried vegetables in a Chiang Mai restaurant. It wasn’t lonely or bad, honestly. But that said, I truly appreciated that this year I could spend America’s special Stuff Yourself Holiday with beloved family and friends in New York and Philadelphia!
Now on to the contest promised by the heading of this article.
During our New York Thanksgiving awesomeness, my [...Read More!]
I am currently half human and half icicle due to wandering outside in Boston’s winter for 3 hours with a foolishly thin jacket, but that’s all right.
Why?
Because the reason I was outside was to go on a famous Context Tour of Boston’s Big Dig!
I am thrilled to report that thanks to the tour, my noggin is now sparkling with countless new Boston facts, and my camera now brims with 100 fresh [...Read More!]
You’re back from traveling around the world. Your blog has over 400 articles documenting every single day of the journey. Now what?
There’s one tip for sure: print out those photos and plaster the walls of your new home with them to remember the loveliness of distant countries each and every day!
Now here’s the awesome part: it is CRAZY cheap to order and print digital photos with a click of your mouse! [...Read More!]
We’re deep into our discussion of Sexy Buildings of Boston, but what about those buildings that are sexy because they are so… how shall we put this… freakishly strange?
To explain where the term “Sexy-Ugly” is from, let’s flash back to the 2001 flick, Kissing Jessica Stein.
Specifically, let’s recall the following chat between the two leads, as they discuss Jessica’s inability to find a man who matches her dream:
Jessica: If [...Read More!]
Hello pretty people!
So maybe this here “challenge” will be ridiculously easy for you all, or maybe it will take years for the correct answer to be guessed…
…but the simple fact is that I have just graded 300 hunks of paper (one essay test and one term paper from each of my 150 students) over the course of seven long days, and now everything is a bit hazy and swirly…
…so, dagnabbit, I [...Read More!]