I am fascinated with the brain. My masters thesis/research is brain-based stuff. Long story short–I’m hooked. I shared a bit about Jill Bolte Taylor about a year ago on my other blog, but yesterday I started reading her book, My Stroke of Insight. After watching her speak (see below), I was sure I’d be let …
Category Archive: Energy
Jan
12
A Truth Uncovered
An ongoing struggle I’ve always had is that I’m not certain what I’m supposed to be doing. Is it teaching? Writing? Leading? I have a lot of interests, so I’m always feeling sort of half into something and half into something else. I struggle with a reason for my existence. Why am I here? What …
Nov
07
I love this quote
I know I’ve been completely phoning it in lately. For anybody still out there visiting this blog, I can only apologize and offer up the lame excuse that the work I’m doing in getting my M.Ed (masters in education) is sucking up all my spare time and energy. Trust me, however, I’ll be back. Sooner …
Oct
23
Pretty Windy
Whoever said wind turbines litter the landscape? This 3-D image won first prize at the AWEA wind power conference recently in Pittsburgh. “While making this piece, I intended to show the beauty of renewable energy sources,” said creator Aleksandar Rodic. Nice.
Oct
04
Bill Collar Asks: How’s Your Attitude?
Every other Thursday (or so) we have a morning staff meeting. This morning our principal (bless her heart) shared a little quiz with us to help keep it light. She got the quiz from a book by award winning teacher turned motivational speaker, Bill Collar. Next week Mr. Collar will be coming to SCF to …
Mar
05
Global Warming: A Free Interdisciplinary Curriculum
The picture above is of my family (minus me, I’m taking the picture . . .duh) and Will Steger. It was taken at this year’s St. Paul Winter Carnival in January. The temperature that day was about 5 degrees and the wind was really kicking out of the north, so the wind chill was actually …
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