The end of the semester is looming, so a lot of my attention has turned toward the important but unglamorous work of wrapping up courses with students, preparing them for finals, and girding myself to grade large batches of final papers. Even though the Thames River Ramble is behind me, I am still thinking a […]
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I’ve not touched my blog for the past week, so apologies to family and friends eager to hear more about our adventures. Tara and I spent Thanksgiving in Dublin, Ireland. This was our first time in Ireland. It was a pleasant, relaxed trip. During our first two days we hit all of the “greatest hits”
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I can say with confidence that my Study Abroad semester in Oxford has been unlike any ever experienced by ACU faculty and students. Consider all of the extraordinary happenings here! It is November, and the United Kingdom is on its third prime minister since the start of Fall. We’ve witnessed the death of the beloved
I have this memory. When I was a little kid, there was a Christmas market in our rural hometown. My parents gave me and my siblings some money to spend on Christmas gifts. Making my way through the vendor booths, I found myself staring at a luminous, cheap, fake diamond ring. It was little more
[Note: I wrote this post last Thursday after arriving back in Oxford. I didn’t have time to upload pictures before our group left for London, so I am only now posting. A complete set of pictures from leg 14 of the ramble may be found here] When my oldest son Theo turned nine we bought
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Yesterday our Study Abroad group enjoyed a lovely early Thanksgiving meal together. It has become a Study Abroad tradition, prompted primarily by the fact that most of us are traveling during the Thanksgiving holiday. Our plans went slightly awry when Jacque sent me a message in the morning that she tested positive for Covid. Her
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