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Father’s Day 2021
Today the topic is courage. My father was not the strong silent type. No Gary Cooper, he. My dad had narrow shoulders (as do I), he was a worrier (as am I), and while he would clam up about some things...
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Anniversary Documentary, 2021
With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest Birds; pleasant the Sun When first on this...
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The Odyssey Project: Further Discoveries
Nearly two years ago I wrote about “The Odyssey Project,” in a post outlining a grant proposal submitted to the MacArthur Foundation in 1997. The proposal was not funded, but the idea lived on, and...
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cPanels and domains: two takes
I just left two long comments on Tom Woodward’s April post about Domains and cPanels and such. The first comment vanished, so I immediately thought “operator error,” in other words, “I messed up.” So I...
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An Advent Meditation
My meditation follows the reading from the Gospel. From the Lectionary for December 22, 2021: Luke 1:39-56 (New Revised Standard Version) Mary Visits Elizabeth 39 In those days Mary set out and went...
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43 Cheers
Today my wife Alice and I have been married forty-three years. We greeted each other with a hug this morning, as is our wont. After we wished each other a happy anniversary, Alice leaned her head...
View ArticleThe Universe and Universities in a Digital Age
What a delightful surprise it was to be invited to be the keynote speaker for the rebooted Baylor University Educational Technology Showcase event at the end of March. Although I left Baylor for...
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44 Huzzahs
Today I’m thinking about the 17th century–I’m at the 13th International Milton Symposium–but also, and even more intensely, about July 14, 1979, when Alice and I were married. The beautiful Lady Alice...
View ArticleThe sense of an ending
Courses make up a curriculum, but neither should be just one thing after another. To be memorable, a course of study, a semester, a degree program should have a shape, just the way a good story has a...
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A brief history of us
Forty-five years ago today, Alice Woodworth and I were married by her father the Reverend Robert Woodworth, my uncle the Reverend Fred Gardner assisting, in the amphitheater at what was then Mary...
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