A mysterious kitchen tool that I was given. The box says "terbuat dari bahan stainless steel". I believe it means "made from stainless steel" in Indonesian. I couldn't get a readable picture of the instructions so I have transcribed them. Multi-functionStainless Steel Pressure Surface MachineThank you very much for choosing our products to serve you [...]
Two amazing articles crossed paths with me this week. The author of the first piece has a tagline that says, “String is far more important than the wheel in the pantheon of inventions." https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-long-knotty-world-spanning-story-of-string/ As a spinner myself, I am very open to this idea. I do admit that I have never thought of string [...]
From Dayton museum, Art of O-Sek Bang. "Madonnas of the Morning Calm: Sacred Images from Korea" (2006). https://ecommons.udayton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1089&context=ml_exhibitsummaries
When I started teaching, my first year was pure survival. I certainly presented material so that students could learn but I didn’t really understand classrooms or the dynamics of the students in middle school. I can say looking back, that I did understand a certain amount about certain students but I could have done so [...]
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed... My mother said, and [...]
