Family Weekend: Advice to the Newbies
Before further discussion of Holden Caulfield’s “Sleep tight, ya morons!” goodbye to Pencey Prep, and to get my 9th graders fully into their English minds last period on Tuesday, I rattled them out of...
View ArticleMy Favorite Class?
My favorite class? Math, although at some points challenging I thoroughly enjoy learning about new algebraic concepts and seeing how previous learned concepts come together to help me solve a specific...
View ArticleGymkhana Season Begins!
With our return to campus came the return to the Horse Program for a good many of our students. After riding our horses back from Pasture (an area on the other side of the valley) on Wednesday and...
View ArticleTaking it in
“Write what’s in front of you,” Natalie Goldberg advises in Writing Down the Bones, a book I use selected chapters from in my English IV Honors class. And on a day when I’m still trying to imagine the...
View ArticleComfort in a cup, and a crowd
Starbucks??? Three of my advisees (all senior girls) said hopefully and excitedly after formal dinner the other night. Please???? They’d determined it was too cold for ice cream, so if I was willing to...
View ArticleMean it: “It’s all good.”
You never really plan on Plan B. When I told Michael a couple of months ago that my idea of a perfect camping trip would be to backpack with only my own gear and food (OK, I’ll take the med kit, too)...
View ArticleHFKT at 11,106′
At the start of July, a particularly sporty friend–the kind who believes a vacay-day is squandered if it doesn’t include at least two athletic “adventures”–asked innocently what my goals were for my...
View ArticleHabitat and habits
Are those mountain lion prints? Pre-dawn, and I'm hiking the Forest Cooke solo. My dog won't go with me anymore, since her best canine buddy dropped out of the picture last June. Karleanne isn't here...
View ArticleAnd they’re off
I guess it’s official. The group we referred to last spring as the “rising seniors” are now firmly rooted in their official senior shoes. The prefect meetings are becoming routine, the new classes...
View ArticleDecisions, Possibilities & The Future
There is a sort of difficulty that accompanies any planning of the future. As second visits start, is easy to remember this time last year when I helped my younger brother choose a high school. It...
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