Cougar (in Victoria)

September 15, 2010

Late Monday night, my next-door neighbor spotted a cougar on the patch of lawn in front of the townhouse across the street from us on Rockland Avenue. She had intended to move her vehicle from her property to my street (Pentrelew) around the corner, but the cougar – which did not appear frightened by the […]

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Follow up on Education and Homeschooling

September 14, 2010

This is my third post this week on education – first, there was Waiting for Superman’s inconvenient truths about education on Sept. 8, followed by some more impressions on Sept. 10, Friday odds and ends. Today’s post is a message I sent to a friend of my husband’s, who wanted some more information about homeschooling. […]

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Doubt

September 13, 2010

There’s something uniquely web-world weird about typing in the name of a long-ago friend into a search box – say, Facebook’s? – and discovering his/her Doppelgaenger: the person who has the same name and could – just possibly could be the person you were searching for, but could also be a completely different person altogether. […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

September 12, 2010

Welcome to Public Art Online Portal page for the UK’s Public Art Online site: useful resource for public art news, case studies, research, planning, etc. tags: public_art reference Does Your Language Shape How You Think? – NYTimes.com Fascinating article by Guy Deutscher about language, specifically one’s mother tongue, and how it shapes how we think. […]

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Obviously

September 11, 2010

It’s 9/11 and many of us have abiding memories – for me, I was in Europe (in Baden-Baden, actually), and we had to access internet at the public library to find out if a friend was on one of the planes. He was. Watching the events on my mother-in-law’s TV was compelling, but seeing the […]

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Friday odds and ends

September 10, 2010

I’m still mulling over my Wednesday blog post on the state of education, provoked in part by the comments others have left on Fred‘s and Joanne‘s blog posts about Waiting for Superman (see also the article by John Heilemann). I left two more comments on Fred’s post – which now has 331 comments. Every time […]

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Waiting for Superman’s inconvenient truths about education

September 8, 2010

Two of my favorite bloggers – Fred Wilson and Gotham Gal (aka Joanne Wilson) – already posted today about Davis Guggenheim‘s latest documentary, Waiting for Superman, and, since the film addresses a topic – namely, education – that I was knee-deep in for the longest time, I posted a couple of comments on their sites. […]

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Woman taking a stand, no relativistic shilly-shallying

September 7, 2010

I would love to see this film: Resisting Paradise (2003) by Barbara Hammer. A still: . A snippet of description: Resisting Paradise is a 16mm experimental documentary that explores the relationship between art and politics through a juxtaposition of the work of French painters Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard with interviews with French WWII resistance […]

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Raining/reining in summer

September 6, 2010

We do things differently here on the Canadian We(s)t Coast than we did back East in New England, that’s for sure. After a night of relentless rain that followed an already cooling Sunday, we woke up this morning to a Labor Day (ok, Labour Day) sodden with all the signs of autumn. It rained throughout […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

September 5, 2010

Op-Ed Columnist – The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party – NYTimes.com Yes, how is Obama fighting against these guys? QUOTE When wolves of Murdoch’s ingenuity and the Kochs’ stealth have been at the door of our democracy in the past, Democrats have fought back fiercely. Franklin Roosevelt’s triumphant 1936 re-election campaign pummeled the Liberty League […]

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