Why do we love dystopia? Seriously, I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and I'm really trying to understand it. In the last few weeks I've listened to the audiobooks of The Handmaid's Tale and the first two books in the Maze Runner series (The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials)--commutes are great for… Continue reading Dystopia
A few months ago I wrote a blog post called Time... about how time had been moving differently for me since I was working in a job outside of education, even more since the pandemic started. I mentioned in that post that I wasted a lot of time doing silly things like scrolling on Facebook,… Continue reading Reclaiming My Time
I went to my high school class reunion last night. It was our "20+1" year reunion, since we were supposed to meet last year but COVID kiboshed that plan. To be honest, I don't really know if we should have met this year as we did (in the basement party room of a bar), but… Continue reading Reunions
There were two fire incidents in my life this week. First, the other night my dad was driving a truck full of just-harvested soybeans from the field to park in the shed for the night when the wiring started on fire. I got a rather frantic text from my mom telling me the truck was… Continue reading Fire!
A few years ago I was teaching in a school district with an International Baccalaureate program. To be honest, I still don't fully understand everything about the IB program, but one thing I learned about because of the program was "Theory of Knowledge". I remember hearing about the TOK class, and it sounded absolutely fascinating… Continue reading Epistemology
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