Allowance day – time for the weekly trip to the Metropolitin department store a couple blocks away to purchase a new something… Who knows what… I’ll decide when I get there, maybe a bag of marbles. Maybe a pop and a chocolate bar. Maybe a toy car. The boy’s allowance is included weekly in my [...]
Go to post pageThis post is far more academic than any of my others, so reader, be warned. (cross-posted to http://milestomes.com) While studying my B. A. at the University of Manitoba in the mid to late 80′s, I fell in love with Canadian Literature (CanLit). Courses with David Arnason and Dennis Cooley, encounters with Robert Kroetsch, and had [...]
Go to post pageRemember digging a the deepest hole you could and dreaming about going to the other side of the world, of finding hidden treasures from ages past, or underground caverns to play in. And that special place in the trees at the park became another world where the gathered rocks, sticks, and leaves became furniture and walls. We [...]
Go to post pagePiano lessons, Cubs, church, soccer, judo, day camps, summer camp. That was me growing up. I could tell you the extra curricular activities of any one of my friends at that time too. We never thought of ourselves as students – for the most part, the unique elements of our personalities and lives came from [...]
Go to post pageModeling Bejeweled scores with Base10 blocks. Math wasn’t my strongest subject when I was a grade-school student. It was full of mysterious and unintelligble machinations with numbers that made no sense to me. Why do I have to find a common demonimator? Why does that number change signs when we move it to the other [...]
Go to post page“How was your day?” Good. “What did you learn today?” Don’t remember. “Did you have fun at recess?” Yes. Sound familiar? I have no doubt that as parents now, and children ourselves years ago that we engaged in similar conversations. Frustrating on both sides: one wanting to know about their child’s life and the other… [...]
Go to post pageI have always been an audio story fan, since my 1979 discovery in the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. I loved how I could listen to a story and still be doing something else – unlike books and television that occupy so much more of your attention. (Don’t get me wrong, I love books, and I [...]
Go to post pageIt’s hard to beat a cardboard box for pure imaginative entertainment; the bigger the better. I was blessed for a time when my father was selling appliances – we had a steady supply of enormous boxes and we loved them. From submarines, to houses, to space ships, to pinhole cameras, we played with those boxes [...]
Go to post pageI admit to really not enjoying history when I was in school. Seemed it was all about names and dates and places and politics. I couldn’t absorb it when I was first exposed to it at age 13 let alone make any sense of why it was important. It’s beyond me why curriculum creators thought [...]
Go to post pageSimile: a comparison using “like” or “as”. That’s been in my brain since I can remember. I had a quilt – each square had a simile on it along with a picture – swift as a fox, gentle as a lamb, busy as a beaver, etc. Later, in grade 7, it was a poster on [...]
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