Mini Book Review: Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness

After having Patrick Ness‘ books recommended to me by the fine folks at io9, I went to the library and picked up a copy of The Knife of Never Letting Go, the first book of the Chaos Walking trilogy.  And, man is it good!  So good, I went and read through the sequel, The Ask [...]

SBG: An epiphany

So I’ll be the first to admit that because of my wide variety of classes taught, my marking has been somewhat schizophrenic.  I don’t generally mark the same way in CPT as I do in History, French or Science, and each class lends itself to specific ways of gathering marks.  Readers will note that I [...]

Evil genius

When I went to mow the lawn the other day, the kids asked why I’d let the grass get so long.  I told them it was so the elephants would have a place to hide, not really thinking about it.  Of course, with a line like that, the kids wanted to know all about elephants [...]

Eight years old

When I started this blog in 2002, it was with the intention of it becoming a repository of links to stories I was interested in.  It has evolved over the past eight years to become that and much else.  While my weekly links roundups serve much the same purpose as the original story file, the [...]

Friday Fundeism

Fideism (n): doctrine that knowledge depends on faith over reason.  Fundeism (n): doctrine that places amusement above all.  This will be my last Fun Friday update for this school year – they’ll pick up again in the fall, time permitting.  Here are your links for this week:
Social:

Scenes from the Gulf – The Big Picture has [...]

Little emissaries

I’m really enjoying the new Matt Maher album, Alive Again.  A line from one song in particular (Flesh And Bone) has stuck with me:
I met a man who walked on water
Who wore His crown like a blue collar.
I met a man who treated children
Like they were ambassadors to the kingdom.
I wonder how often the church [...]

Farewell to Facebook

I originally signed on to Facebook a couple of years back because a friend told me I could find an old high school buddy through the site.  Fair enough.  Since then, I’ve reconnected with a couple of old friends, but not in any meaningful kind of way – just a few chats now and then.  [...]

The perfect storm of education finance

My district finds itself in a bit of a pickle finance-wise this year.  Three factors have come together to create one of the toughest financial times this school district has faced.
The first is inability to raise our own funds.  The Saskatchewan government last year announced that it was removing the ability of local school boards [...]