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The Call to Higher Mercy
Doing Much Ado About Nothing as a faculty play and teaching it to my English classes has provoked a lot of great discussions lately. Recently, my junior/senior AP students were discussing the crisis point in the play where Claudio chooses to defame Hero publicly at the altar for being unfaithful to him (so he thinks, thanks to…
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Post-play scattered thoughts
From my dustbin to yours…. the stuff floating around in my head today. –Directors are always late to the after-parties. That’s the biggest downside to directing, I think — we’re usually the last people to leave C108 because we have to make sure everything has been put away, the lights are off, the doors are…
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Ready.
The eve of an opening night is always tangled up in small details and too little sleep. It’s already 12:43am. I ought to be in bed. The past few weeks have been one of the most unique experiences of my life at New Covenant School. Working with one’s peers in something as stressful and creatively…
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daily chuckle
One of my 7th graders always arrives in the most interesting vehicles. Her dad regularly picks up her & her brothers in a dune buggy, much to her embarrassment and the fascination of the other students: “Whoa! That’s cool!” But this morning I laughed out loud all the way to my classroom when I saw…
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Some gifts you can’t repay
I recently posted this (with a few edits) on a BJU “Survivors” discussion group on Facebook. After reading through my post, I decided I ought to publish it more broadly. I am still amazed, when I think back to my BJU days, that I had only a very few “not so good” professors. I took…
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