Apace of Change

I watched waaaay too much TV as a kid. As such, I’ve not only soaked up mental gigabytes of useless pop culture trivia, but also the every-5-minutes advertising that is pervasive in American television broadcasting.
My first recollection of a TV commercial that really impacted me was for Murphy’s Oil Soap, from 1979 or 1980 [...]

I hate being absent.
I don’t hate taking time off from work, I just hate being absent. It’s far more work for me to put together sub plans and develop some sort of meaningful activity for the kids than it is to just come in sick and spread whatever disease I’ve got.
In an effort to [...]

Within twenty-four hours of each other, my colleagues Dave Stacey and David Robb both managed to bring new life into this world (I hear their wives may have played some part in the process as well).
Congratulations, gents! I’ll be re-joining the ranks of “fathers of infants” in under three months - keep a changing [...]

So I’m seeing more and more folks in the edublogoblahblah are down with Facebook. I’ve been considering signing up for an account myself, but I’m wondering if, as a married man in his thirties (OK, just starting his thirties), maybe I’m too past it for Facebook. I had a MySpace account for about [...]

On the eve of my thirtieth Thanksgiving, I am more acutely aware of all the things I have to be thankful for this year than ever before.  One of these is the network of educators in which I’ve become enmeshed in the last three months I’ve been blogging.  Thank you all for providing insight and [...]