This is my first post. I hope to continue with thoughts about books, school, teaching, kids, or even just the weather.
I am currently working through the Christmas break and trying to balance my free time between "useful" reading and fun activities. I finished the most recent installment of the "Enders Game" series. It had some great quotes about parenting and the difficulty of letting our children make their own mistakes without blaming ourselves. I also read Ishmael Beah's memoir of being a child soldier in Africa. I couldn't stop thinking about my own life at the time he was living through horrible events. I though I was going through tough times in high school and starting college; I had no idea of the daily struggle for life and death the people halfway around the world were having. I certainly could have said at the time that I knew others were struggling but to put a single human face on the situation and compare it with my own at the same time is a bit sobering. Finally, I am working through "The White Russian," a mystery set in the months before the first Russian revolution. What a nasty time. I am usually annoyed by much of the character developing side plots when I just want a good mystery but am enjoying the evolving story of the main character and the struggles to gain some sort of atonment from his family. I still don't know who dunnit'.
I am currently working through the Christmas break and trying to balance my free time between "useful" reading and fun activities. I finished the most recent installment of the "Enders Game" series. It had some great quotes about parenting and the difficulty of letting our children make their own mistakes without blaming ourselves. I also read Ishmael Beah's memoir of being a child soldier in Africa. I couldn't stop thinking about my own life at the time he was living through horrible events. I though I was going through tough times in high school and starting college; I had no idea of the daily struggle for life and death the people halfway around the world were having. I certainly could have said at the time that I knew others were struggling but to put a single human face on the situation and compare it with my own at the same time is a bit sobering. Finally, I am working through "The White Russian," a mystery set in the months before the first Russian revolution. What a nasty time. I am usually annoyed by much of the character developing side plots when I just want a good mystery but am enjoying the evolving story of the main character and the struggles to gain some sort of atonment from his family. I still don't know who dunnit'.
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