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Pie eater.

Sorry folks, I was so overworked at Hopkins this week that I ate your deathbed pie charts, mistaking them for actual pies. They were pretty tasty! (especially Wendy’s because she and I really like food, so it made up a significant…

Lost.

So I’m new to the area and the GoogleMaps app on the iPhone wasn’t cutting it when I would miss a turn or there would be an unexpected closure, etc. As a stop-gap between getting a full on Garmin, I…

Deathbed Pie Chart, volume 1.

The only thing† worse than having anxiety about something is the clarity of hindsight when you realize how much time you’ve spend senselessly worrying. As a former procrastinator who paid dearly for her dithering, I made a switch many years…

Happy Birthday, USA.

A good read, in case you haven’t taken the time. When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of…

On being sure-footed

Traveling with Lucy the WonderCat has been an adventure. I’m sure she’ll tell you all about it when she gets her typewriter back. Anyway, as a loyal JetBluer, I went out to get the “Jet Paws” pet carrier in accordance…

It’s a cello-y post!

Oh, internets, how I missed thee! I seriously hugged my laptop just then. Due to a screw up of epic proportions, it looks like your friendly neighborhood cellist will be sleeping on the floor in her swanky (vacant) new place…

Steps

I shed the first of what are sure to be many tears today as I reflected on one particular student’s journey. My strength as a teacher (and possibly as a human) is the same as my greatest weakness:  I invest…

The Big Game

I am so on fire for this game. Win, lose, or tie, I am living and breathing USA Soccer! …and since I promised that the next post would be about cello: Um, practice with the metronome. And then watch the…