January 2014

Professor School

I spent most of last weekend at Fanshawe College taking in a series of seminars and presentations designed to teach me how to teach.  There were a few dozen of us, some with teaching experience and some without, and it really astonished me in hindsight that a couple of other colleges unleashed me, and many others, on unsuspecting students with no training whatsoever!  …

A Chill in the Air

Of all the things I must do on the radio, weather is my least favourite. It’s rarely accurate and it’s full of guesses and subject to  interpretation. Environment Canada, our government’s weather service, supplies us with our forecast and to top it all off the writing is terrible.  …

Novel Way to Start the New Year

Someone, somewhere recommended this Swedish-to-English novel and I’m so glad I picked it up.  The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared keeps only surnames and place names in its original Swedish and the story isn’t lost in translation. It’s funny, smart and at times, laugh out loud funny.  …