A Whole New Mind

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Another of the books that I finished toward the end of last year was A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future byDaniel Pink.  The central argument of A Whole New Mind was that our global society has transformed from a society in which left-brain skills were dominant to one where [...]

The Long Tail

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It’s Friday night and my poor, sick husband fell asleep before 9:00 PM.  Not wanting to waste time, but also not wanting to violate my long-standing (dating back to high school) personal rule of no homework (or work-work) on Friday night, I decided that I might tackle an unfinished blog post.  So . [...]

Becoming a Runner

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In the past three months, I’ve become a runner.  It’s an odd transformation, particularly because I’ve run before without becoming a runner.  I was a member of my school’s cross country team during my senior year of high school, but I was a basketball player trying to get in shape after a summer [...]

It’s about time . . .

On occasion, students will appeal to my sense of mercy before (or usually after) a deadline.  Death in the family, surgery, illness and accident get my sympathy fairly quickly, but are not commonly invoked in such appeals.  Generally, students will tell me that they simply didn’t have the time.  This annoys me.  Are they claiming [...]