Happy Birthday, John!!

now i’m just back from the dinner that followed the opera … the opera was sharp really sharp and cool … black & white … brown & white … i guess you’d say simple & minimal with very graceful efffects … les dialogues des carmelites … my first visit to the lyric opera in chicago [...]

you can sit trying to read Zukofsky selected poems or a remaindered Moyers collection of speeches … or Gilman on Chekhov or the introduction to Chekhov’s own letters … you can dip into the Brunetti-edited anthology of graphic fiction and get as far as the opening homages to Charles Schultz and remember how much peanuts [...]

maybe i did this on purpose … i don’t know … whatever …
last night was student night for street scenes & my job was to patrol the 700 hall with a colleague … not much happening … mostly just roving herds of sixth seventh eighth graders … wandering down the hall to find only one [...]

here it comes … street scenes … the school’s annual fundraiser … wherein we disassemble & discombobulate the whole place … almost every classroom gets packed into some other classroom … an extraordinary amount of attention to detail goes into the moving plan … so that the whole move can happen in about an hour [...]

a friend is silent when i ask if sometimes i come on like a know-it-all…
o god …
i do … i do at least sometimes come on like a know-it-all … this is terrible … i hate know-it-alls … they really bug me … and here i am … one of them … this [...]

a friend is silent when i ask if sometimes i come on like a know-it-all…
o god …
i do … i do at least sometimes come on like a know-it-all … this is terrible … i hate know-it-alls … they really bug me … and here i am … one of them … this [...]

if one has enough money & influence, one can restore the broken thing without too much effort … fixing The Broken behind the thing is a tougher job …
o … sorry … having a cryptic moment

yesterday the carmel catholic faculty was treated to an in-service day which began with "the role and place of technology in an educational setting" and ended with The Decision Pit …
In the morning, Alan November spoke to us about the technological & pedagogical challenges of the wired world … mr. november drew our attention to:
… [...]

i spent too much of a good chunk of today online … the other day i set up discussion boards for two colleagues … tonight a question from one of them got me nosing around a few aspects (functionalities) i hadn’t paid any attention to before … cool … but time-consuming …
and this afternoon i [...]

i spent too much of a good chunk of today online … the other day i set up discussion boards for two colleagues … tonight a question from one of them got me nosing around a few aspects (functionalities) i hadn’t paid any attention to before … cool … but time-consuming …
and this afternoon i [...]

after messing around all day trying to get the new web site to do things that (it turns out) it can’t do, i decided late this afternoon to change plans again … so it’s back to page one … almost …
if i weren’t learning some things through all of this, it would be a [...]

things are happening at brtom.org … a bit on the slow side … some of the deeper pages (mostly journal archives & personal stuff) are still offline, but i know how to fix that …
biggest problem right now is email … none of the @ brtom.org addresses (including the form boxes from the site) [...]

buried the day under white pages of student writing … some of it quite good … but too much altogether .. and not done yet … though i managed just now tonight to count the ap discussion board … also there quite happy with the mostly high-quality considerations of Lot 49 & Hard Times & [...]

“We measure time by its deaths, yes, and by its births. For time is also told by life. As some depart, others come. The hand opened in farewell remains open in welcome. I, who once had grandparents and parents, now have children and grandchildren. Like the flowing river that is yet always present, time [...]