Lycksele learning centers
On October 21, while I was in Sweden, I spent a day in Lycksele. There, I learned about an innovative organization called Akademi Norr from Regis Cabral, their EU coordinator. The organization emerged...
View ArticleMaramureş
I’m attaching a couple of photos from Romania, where we went in September. One is a wooden church in the Maramureş style. It’s part of the Barsana Monastery. Another was one of many hitchhikers we...
View ArticleChristmas in Kilcrohane
We had a wonderful Christmas in Kilcrohane on the Sheepshead Peninsula in West Cork. We went with Stephen, over from St. Petersburg, Russia; Emily, from Minneapolis; and Matt, one of their friends,...
View ArticleThoughts for today
“Books are no substitute for living” (May Hill Arbuthnot), but “Life without books is empty” (Isaac Asimov) “To feel the meaning of what one is doing, and to rejoice in that meaning; to unite in one...
View ArticleMiss Dierdorf and the mythology newspaper
I was asked to write about a favorite teacher for a project in a philosophy of education course. The person who asked me plans to use the lenses of John Dewey, Paulo Freire, and Pádraic Pearse to look...
View ArticleRaccoon invasion
I awakened around 3 am last night to a large racket inside our house. Being the only one there at the time, it didn’t take long for even my groggy brain to understand that there was an intruder....
View ArticleThe birth of computer networking
I had arrived at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) in the summer of 1971, knowing of the important work there in artificial intelligence, computer simulations in psychology, and natural language...
View ArticleMy father’s birthday
My father, Bertram Camp Bruce, was born on November 19, 1915. Had his heart been healthier, he might have lived until his birthday today, but instead he died on December 12, 1969, almost 40 years ago....
View ArticleFort Worth Museum of Science and History
As a reward for hours spent with packing, house repairs, and financial stuff, my mother and I went to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History yesterday. We had a good lunch at the Stars Cafe and a...
View ArticleSaving the coots, one dinghy at a time
Today is the 125th anniversary of the birth of Arthur Mitchell Ransome. He was an English author and journalist, who is best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books....
View ArticleGood-bye to my Alaska boots
There are times when it’s better to say good-bye. Many years ago, I made several trips to Alaska for the Quill project. I recall it being in November when I first visited Shungnak, along the Kobuk...
View ArticleMy retirement plans
It’s with satisfaction, relief, anticipation, and a tinge of sadness, that I submitted my intention to retire in August of this year. I will have been with the University of Illinois for twenty years,...
View ArticleThreadgill’s Home Cookin’
A couple of nights ago, my sister, mother, and I went to Threadgill’s Home Cookin’ on N. Lamar in near north Austin. It’s not far from where I lived when I was in graduate school at the University of...
View ArticlePopper, Wittgenstein, and the raccoon
We had a visitor last night. Like a previous one of her kin, she managed to visit every room, leaving small gifts on the floor and thoughtfully rearranging books, wall hangings, pottery, and other...
View ArticleDeborah Geithner, August 12, 2014
Duet with Deborah I’ve been working on a piano sonata by Beethoven (No. 31 in A♭, Opus 110) for a long time. That project may last a lifetime. But I plan to continue both for the sake of the music and...
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