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I do! But as a native Oregonian it is inbred.

That’s awesome.

Thanks for mentioning that. I know just who to buy that for for Christmas.

Susan Rieger’s Like Mother, Like Mother follows three generations of women, centering around the middle, who becomes a powerful newspaper editor in DC. Her daughter also becomes a writer and reporter, and the central mystery of the book is what happened to her mother decades earlier. Great read.

Anne Tyler’s Three Days in June is about the protagonist’s daughter’s wedding: day before, day of, and day after. It reminisces back on her life and forward to her future. A lovely read.

J. Yardley, WaPo: “One cannot reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this.”

Book cover art is a painting of the corner of a house, one wall in sunshine and the other in shadow, with greenery and flowers growing along the a wall. There is a window on the sunny wall with an orange cat peering out. The title and author are on white text: Three Days in June, a novel, Anne Tyler.

Book cover art is a painting in block-color of the half-faces of two women. You see their noses on the painting edge and their ears in the center. Title and author’s name in white all caps: Like Mother, Like Mother Susan Rieger. In between, in smaller black script, “a novel”

I’ve been reading a lot in retirement, and two books I finished last week stand out for great writing, compelling characters, interesting relationships, and mothers and daughters.

Both highly recommended.

See thread for a little more about each book. 1/3

Love my colleagues at NOAA, but you’re right, I’d catch that one too.

There is another disaster movie that floods the Midwest called 10.5 Apocalypse. Great comic content and spectacularly bad science.

Oh my! I think I will have to add this to my watchlist.

Thanks for the recommendation. Putting it on my list.

Fantastic! I used to practice this with my kids while people-watching: If you were lost, who could you ask for help? Maybe that Grampa? Nope, not the Grampa (sorry men). Parents with kids, cops in uniform, store workers, grandmas with grandpas.

I just checked the results for this because paddlewheelite is such a great name, but mannardite is so useful. It was a hard choice!

How many times in #MinCup history has it been a one-vote match?

Awesome. I hope you get to cook with them too.

In HS biology we ate everything we dissected, except the worms. Our teacher went to the fish market and we dissected squid, clams, fish, etc. Many of the kids had never eaten calamari, chowder, or fresh fish. Yum.

So sorry. This is wrong, plain and simple. The expectation for rotators at NSF is that you will return to your position and your research will continue.

Shame on Tulane.

This is fantastic. How did your students respond? How old are they?

A ’rock star’ in geology and education - Binghamton News Assistant Professor Sarah Sheffield earns a national award from the Association for Women Geoscientists for her work in paleobiology and education. -

@sarahlsheffield.bsky.social - so glad Google popped this story into my news feed today. Retirement means I miss things sometimes.

Congratulations Sarah!

www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5...

Quite true. I have asked my MAGA friends/family “What qualities in Trump do you want to see your children emulate?” And “In which MAGA policies do you see Jesus’s teachings?” So far, no one has attempted to answer these questions because 🤷‍♀️

I may have to quote you (again). I’ve been having this conversation with an old friend on another platform. She says we need to listen to each other, but I don’t think she has read the columns of yours I have shared. Her last reply spoke of context. Sigh.

As a Johnny Cash fan, I am particularly fond of this comment

They also need access to trained teachers, food, healthcare, and support for families who don’t have the resources to support their kids at home. We are a very long way from that here in the US.

If meritocracy works for kids (doubtful) then it would Only work if all children, from birth, had equal access to early education/enrichment, nutrition, and healthcare.

The US is very, very far from that level of equity.

The US education system does inequity better than any institution I know.

True. But emulating their education system is not the only way to improve ours. Not even the best way, I would argue. A better plan would be to recruit more technically inclined folks to the teaching profession, pay all teachers much more, and eliminate high stakes, expensive testing, to start.

And yet I know so many of them.

Communism. Woo hoo!

That works if all you do is lecture and study books, but I don’t understand how you do science in such an environment, or do any exploratory learning. I don’t understand how you teach kids who learn in ways other than reading or listening.

Oh dear!

You’re wrong.

If that’s what you think I said, then I didn’t say it very well. Immigrants do all kinds of valuable, important work in our country, and some of it is necessary work that Americans won’t do.

Immigrants are vital to our economy.

And they should raise their kids to pick crops, work in meat processing plants, and clean offices and hotel rooms.

I expect she has changed her tune now that it’s clear he is “one of them.”

Good start. Now follow the west coast governors and make it available to anyone.