So I engaged in the annual ritual of apple tree pruning the other day. It is the second year in a row I have done it. That makes it annual. When I planted the trees, two summers ago, annual pruning was not a thing that was on my radar, but every time I would look …
I woke up yesterday thinking about what I wanted to write. And today, same. Yesterday I stayed in bed for a while, enjoying being able to puzzle through ideas under the warm sheets, knowing it was -15F outside. Today, I didn’t lounge – even though it was even colder outside. I got out of …
It happened last night. The Mutiny. And it made me happy. There is a point in each semester that I give a task to students in a class I am teaching and they ignore it and do something else. If the students already know me, it happens early on. But if they come to …