This 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 [...]
Every fall my dad would bundle us all in the car to go “spotting”. That meant leaving town and driving around the farms and fields looking for migrating geese and ducks. We’d pass around the binoculars to get a better look at what was in the field. Now, living in the country ourselves, we have [...]
Go to post pageRemember the once-a-year school trip to the local museum herded through the facility with a well-meaning volunteer trying to captivate your attention? Then I heard about, and was bewildered by, the idea of a museum membership. Why on earth would anyone want to spend so much for unlimited access to the museum?! Wasn’t once a [...]
Go to post pageWhen our son was born, I read about using high contrast images to develop focus, attention, tracking objects. Create some using the wingdings fonts – select a simple image, enlarged the font [SHIFT]-[CTRL]-[>] until it fills the page, then print! I tape them up around his crib. Take one down occasionally and hold it above his face and [...]
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