Boondoggle

Every Saturday, I send out a “tip of the week”. Scratch that.  Most Saturdays.  I miss some from time to time. Many of you subscribe to my list.  Like you, I also subscribe to email newsletters.  Every Friday I receive an email from Tim Ferriss, author of...

Life is slowly returning to a normal state for my family. Back to work.    Last week, Classical Conversations asked for an article from me. Here it is: ================================================= A few weeks ago life for me turned upside down. My family and I...

Cops in Athens, Cops in Franklin, Cops in the classroom.

This is going to get weird.  Hang in there with me.  Hopefully, it will all make sense. I have been studying Latin for 20 years.  I still get the endings wrong.  It’s ridiculous. Here is part of the problem… and, I think it’s a big part of the...

All yours…

For the past 5 or 6 years, and possibly more, I have been collecting student work. Each day, as students send answers to assignments, I check their work and then copy their work into a file. I have also collected my responses to the students, and I have collected my...

Catching up, or contributing?

As many of you know, I’ve been stuck behind my computer since arriving in Athens, Greece.  This has, naturally, been a source of frustration to me.  Mostly, I’ve been stuck here grading papers and assignments. A few weeks ago, I was at a conference in San...