First Grade. What do each of you remember about first grade? i don't really remember very much. Actually I only have one story for myself, and one for my older brother. Both of us attended the South Corning Elementary School. One day he didn't want to stay at school and just started walking home. Home … Continue reading Journey to a High School Reunion — First Grade
Flashback to Summer
Today I thought I'd post this neat GIF from Sofia's goodbye party last summer. A time that won't come again. From what we are seeing on her blog these days, she is having a great time in Latvia, and will come back a very accomplished young woman.
Whismur
I wrote a blog yesterday on birthday cakes. I ended it with a teaser about the next one. So here it is: For those of you not up on all your Pokemon, this is Whismur. Whismur is a mauve, bipedal Pokémon with a spherical body. It has two stubby arms and two round, yellow-tipped feet … Continue reading Whismur
Through the years in Birthday Cakes
Usually I like to write my blogs in the evening, and schedule them to post the next morning. Last night that just didn't work. After a 15-hour work day followed by a 13-hour work day, each with at least 2 hours of study and writing for the Master's Program I started this month, the brain … Continue reading Through the years in Birthday Cakes
Tell Me a Story
Ever notice how no event, no fact, ever goes unadorned by a narrative? Anything you see you try to associate a story with it. In Chapter 3 Em Griffin introduces Ernest Bormann's Symbolic Convergence Theory, or "fantasy theme analysis". Basically it is a theory about how groups use stories. Fantasy doesn't mean that they share things … Continue reading Tell Me a Story
Objective vs. Subjective, or not vs.
At this stage I'm not sure whether I am taking a communications course or a philosophy course. Chapter two is talking about the Behavioral Scientist vs. the Rhetorician. Objective vs. Interpretive. Basically the historical Objective vs. Subjective debate. See a definition: Subjective information is one person's opinion. In a newspaper, the editorial section is the place … Continue reading Objective vs. Subjective, or not vs.
I Love to Tell the Story…
In my first graduate school text book, A First Look a Communication Theory, seventh edition, By Em Griffin, the author makes the following quote at the beginning of the first chapter: This is a book about theories -- communication theories. After that statement you may already be stifling a yawn. Many college students, after all, … Continue reading I Love to Tell the Story…
Journey to a High School Reunion — Kindergarten
I mentioned in an earlier post my idea of reviewing my educational experiences as a background to my 30th high school reunion. That starts with kindergarten. I didn't attend the Horseheads Christian School until 3rd grade, so my kindergarten story won't start at the school my series is supposed to feature. If anyone in the … Continue reading Journey to a High School Reunion — Kindergarten
More than just stealing from yourself ….
Since Amazon has seen fit to delay my Master's course study books another two days (they are supposed to arrive today -- unless I get another e-mail delaying them even further), I have fallen to reading the one book that has arrived: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition. Now, in high school … Continue reading More than just stealing from yourself ….
Happy 17th Carly!
For her 17th birthday we took our daughter to Cinzetti's in Overland Park, KS. It was her first time there. As every time we come there, they asked us if we have been before. And told them Betsy and I had, but Carly and Nathan hadn't. So they offered the tour, and Nathan and Carly … Continue reading Happy 17th Carly!
At The Rainbow 