A Christmas Card from last year
Coming back to work today, I noticed something I had tacked to my office wall. It is there amidst papers with project codes, routing rules, and other matters of dubious…
Coming back to work today, I noticed something I had tacked to my office wall. It is there amidst papers with project codes, routing rules, and other matters of dubious…
Today I learned that my uncle Lawrence Gallagher of Youngstown, Ohio, passed away peacefully. My father called to tell me the news. My wife and I shed a few tears,…
Lullaby by W. H. Auden Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves…
Below is the text from the speech that President Obama gave today for students returning back to school. Politics aside, this speech is stirring and entirely devoid of anything that…
I have been thinking of the seeming limitations of online learning formats for teaching critical thinking, especially critical thinking as it applied to philsophy or the appreciation of art (as…
I get asked this question a lot in my work at a large non-profit academic database: what is the difference between a primary and secondary source? As we move towards…
Rock on my Swedish friends. The band is Shout Out Louds. The song is Very Loud. I highly recommend it at work to plow through some repetitive task. Brilliant, foot-tapping…