Pipelines: Why metaphors matter

by Adam Johnston (originally posted on writescience.wordpress.com) In all of my meetings and conversations with him, my dean — the head administrator of the College of Science in which I am gainfully employed — is…

7 minutes / 5 nights of terror

Maybe NASA engineers have just never sent their kids to camp. I’m among the large following that’s very excited to see NASA’s latest endeavor to inspire our imagination and learn more about our neighborhood and…

best practice

Over the summer there isn’t much chance to have those long conversations about teaching and learning. Instead, friends and I are relegated to social media, posts of New York Times pieces onto Facebook threads, followed…

pots and pans

Yesterday we opened a box of pots and pans, shiny and new stainless steel. The lids are glass, so even when the cover is on light still pours in, reflects about and begs us not…

carrying Tycho

In our Intro Honors course, we’re reading The Things They Carried, with the introductory chapter by the same name. In that vignette, soldiers carry the burdens, literal and metaphorical, weighing them down. The heft of…

becoming

Tonight I was watching Grace as she was learning new takedowns, part of martial arts class. Her partner, same purple belt but contrasting long, dark hair to Grace’s short blonde cut, posed in a mirror…

how we met

The other day a local program was interviewing the writer of a book on marriage. I normally scoff at these, as well as other “advice” and “self-help” books on relationships, parenting, or personal fulfillment. Because…