Education
A Canadian blogger I discovered through #reverb10, @GeekinHard, wrote a post recently about public education in the US and the charter school movement. Below is my response. I came to teaching relatively late. My mother encouraged me to get my teaching certificate “just in case”, and when I finally graduated from college in the late ’80s, there were not a lot of jobs for teachers. Fast forward past divorce, Y2K, 9/11, middle management, and children growing up to a point where teaching became attractive as a career to me and opportunities were more available. When I quit my job almost a decade ago, the response I heard the most was, “Why would you ever take a teaching job at that salary when you can make so much more in...
Lulu Paste
UPDATE June 2012: I conquered the Lulu Paste recipe vegan style after almost a YEAR of testing. You can find that and other ’60s era favorites in my cookbook, The Market Vegan! Last time I counted them, I had almost 90 cookbooks. Quite a few were gifts, a couple I bought for myself, and the rest were finds at the library book sale, garage sales, and thrift stores. I like to concentrate on one or two cookbooks for a few months, try out new recipes, alter some others, then I refer to them as needed. One that I always have out on the table is Veganomicon, and if you are thinking of going vegan or are new to that type of diet, this is the best basic cookbook you could buy. I also have a notebook with family recipes, and recipes I’ve either found...
Knitting
As part of #reverb10, I made a list of goals I want to accomplish in 2011. One goal I set for myself is to be more creative. Learning to knit is a skill I’ve wanted to acquire for decades but never really had the chance until now. @amandazukofski, one of my web design students last year, hosted a workshop last week as part of the National Art Honor Society series at our school. Teaching teachers is not an easy task, but Amanda was up to the challenge! The video below explains why knitting holds a special place in my life and shows what fun can be had learning a new...
Let’s get sconed!
I couldn’t resist the title, and these scones are worth the bad pun. In this frigid January weather, a version of this blueberry scone recipe (right) will warm everyone’s heart. When I make them, I doubled the recipe and used fresh blueberries if possible. It takes 20 minutes to cook them in my oven at 425 degrees, but I think I made them larger than the original recipe called for. The dough is sticky; I tried to make the traditional scone disk and cut them but that would’ve been impossible. They are moister than a traditional scone but delicious! Another favorite is vegan pumpkin scones from this recipe. Both my kids LOVE them and have had them for breakfast during the school week. Easy & healthy! Finally, here’s my own...
Books
I will never own a Kindle, Nook, or other eReading device at least not to use to read for pleasure. A number of students, teachers and friends received eReaders as gifts over the holidays and as a known technophile, they all wanted to show me their new toys. I was underwhelmed except perhaps for the Nook but only because it was in color, hand a bunch of handy apps, and costs a LOT less than an iPad. Over a decade ago, I bought a Rocketbook eReader and thought I would love carrying multiple books with me in my little gadget to read anywhere. Dan Brown’s Deception Point was mindless entertainment on the plane to California and having a bunch of tech manuals in one relatively small electronic package was handy too. However, I never liked the feel of it....
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