Entries Tagged as ‘15305497’

January 19, 2009

A front row seat to history

 
A student  asked me today what it was like, growing up in the 1960s and experiencing all the assassinations and other things that were happening at the time. The question, which came in the middle of a discussion of this week’s historical inauguration of our first African-American president, took me by surprise for a second. [...]

January 8, 2009

The geese at the top of the page are “ours.”

I say “ours” in quotes because they are wild geese. And as anyone can tell you about wild geese, they really belong to no one. But yes, I took the picture on our farm down at the big pond. We have four ponds, and this is the old original pond that also has a “twin” [...]