Kids are funny. Not as often as inspirational teacher movies, books, and Readers’ Digest columns would have you believe, but often enough.
This week, not laugh-out-loud funny but just situationally silly:
One of our students gets caught cheating on a quiz. He’s barely started the quiz, when his eyes wander over to the paper of the (high-achieving) [...]
I did not like them as a kid.
I did not like them no matter what Mom did.
I did not like them before dessert.
I did not like them with yoghurt.
I did not like them in a bowl.
I did not like them sliced or whole.
I did not like them when grown-up,
Hidden in salad, all cut up.
But in [...]
Sometimes, you need a little Moxie. One of my colleagues brought some back for each of us from a trip to Maine. A little research reveals that we’ve had Moxie since 1884 with nary a pause: it’s “the oldest continuously produced soft drink in the US.” Oddly, Moxie came up in my [...]
My kids are using the school’s laptops for the first time, typing their Sc!ence Ex?o projects. I’m doing things a little differently, having them start typing very early in the process, which is great because it doesn’t feel so much like a last-minute crunch, and it gives everyone something to do regardless of whether [...]
Pic is fuzzy ’cause it’s from my phone. Genoise ladyfingers layered with chocolate mousse, whipped cream on top, chocolate shavings on top of that. So many eggs it was really one big chocolate omelette! Crazy rich. I might try it with a berry mousse come spring.
The mechanical fountains outside the Pompidou Centre. It was dusk. Supposedly each fountain represents a symphony by… I forget. A composer. Surely this is easily googled.
And here’s a detail looking up at the outside of the Pompidou. Richard Rogers, the guy who designed this building is redesigning the Javits here [...]
In New York Cake & Baking Supply, earlier today…
Me (after perusing the racks of flavorings): Do you have lavender flavoring?
C&B guy: Flavoring? No. We have color. I’ve never heard of lavender flavor before.
Me: Okay, yeah, I looked for it, just making sure. Do you have any idea where I [...]
What do people want to know about travel? What to write? In the past, I’ve always gone on and on with details, details… but does anyone read that? My trip started with a minor tragedy: the LCD screen on my camera cracked in transit. Luckily, I could borrow my friend’s camera [...]
I like, use, and possibly even over-use the semicolon, but (or perhaps therefore) I didn’t notice it in the NYC subway ad about throwing newspaper away rather than littering, discussed in the NY Times by diverse grammar experts:
Allan M. Siegal, a longtime arbiter of New York Times style before retiring, opined, “The semicolon is correct, [...]
I’m off to Paris in a few hours, just finishing up some housecleaning and packing chores, but if you might want to check out the TEP Charter School: it’s a school scheduled to open in Washington Heights in 2009. They base their whole plan around the recruitment, support, and retention of excellent, experienced teachers. They [...]
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