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  • Happy Hallowe\'en!

    Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 22:55 in Personal, alaska

    It's still Hallowe'en on the West Coast as I write this. The following photo is of the very first time I celebrated the holiday...I was 4 1/2 years old and remember it being taken. I had a clown mask, too, but didn't wear it when our picture was take...

  • The Clock, the Chart, and the Compass Rose

    Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 22:56 in Personal, alaska

    Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.--William Butler YeatsIt all began in second period, where I assist some of my higher-functioning students in a seventh-grade resource math class. The teacher had begun a lesson on...

  • Tell Me Thursday: Catch of the Day

    Posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 04:00 in alaska, tell me thursday

    Miriam and Bryan Robbins, August 1973, Klawock, Alaska. Original in the possession of Miriam Robbins Midkiff, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Spokane, Washington. 2009.Did you ever remember getting your photograph taken on a special occasion, yet realize ...

  • Wordless Wednesday: Catch of the Day

    Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 04:00 in alaska, wordless wednesday

    Miriam and Bryan Robbins, August 1973, Klawock, Alaska. Original in the possession of Miriam Robbins Midkiff, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Spokane, Washington. 2009....