Christmas in July Family Fun Night at the Finley outdoor pool.

The end of an era - my microwave gave up the ghost. It sparked and made smoke while I was popping popcorn tonight. Since it was Mema's microwave first, and she died during my first year at GRACE, I'd say it had a good, long life.

I mean, French fries alone should have their own chapter, amiright?

Here’s the thing about “think really hard, struggle for a long time, solve it once in a while but usually look up the solution” problems: they can be fun (for a certain type of person), but they’re not an efficient way to learn.

Your students are not actually multi-tasking. They're task switching, and each switch is leaving behind Attention Residue. Here's what that is and how we can we can keep our students focused 🧵👇

Why teaching them for real matters. You can't just provide resources and expect them to figure it out.

This week's blog post - Plan for unexpected questions, so you can follow their curiosity. ontherabbittrail.blogspot.com/2025/07/dont-b…

Sherlock is so cute, I can hardly stand it.

Because of the impending rain, Camp Grace kids aren't getting into the pool. That means they are hanging out in the pool house lobby. I am getting the unexpected treat of watching their dance party.

My triceps are fussing at me, and they are not using friendly language.

My spell check recognize overthink, but it doesn't recognize underthink. Isn't the second one a big enough problem in the world to merit it being recognized as a word? Facebook

I've never thought of this before, but I will now think about it EvERY time I see a squirrel.

One thing I've discovered (perhaps rediscovered) in the editing process is how much difference it can make to move the sentence you had at the end of a paragraph to the beginning.

I love this image! It's one of the earliest examples of photo editing. This is two pictures blended together, one of him in the empty lab and one of the working coils. The negatives were combined in the dark room.

This week's blog post - Don't confuse your students to make yourself sound smart. ontherabbittrail.blogspot.com/2025/08/studen…

Those are not remotely the same. Microfiche was replaced by a better, more efficient technology. Reading and writing is a basic communication skill, digital or not. You can't replace reading with something besides reading.

This is accurate. Except for Virginia. It is actually the South.

My favorite line in this: "I blame my sore knee on being 64. But my other knee doesn't hurt, and it's just as old." youtube.com/watch?v=WfjzkO…