I just finished my friend Helen Taylor's memoir love lay down beside me and we wept. It is a dissection of her depression which took her as far as a very nearly successful suicide attempt. I knew from meeting her that she is a perfectionist, and that her inner critic wants to tell her that... Continue Reading →
What Do We Need to Learn?
I'm fascinated, like all of us are, by the progress that LLM's have made and "artificial intelligence". I feel completely overwhelmed, though, as a teacher. I don't know what we need to be teaching. Okay, for one thing, I feel like we're all going to get hooked on using AIs for various things, and pretty... Continue Reading →
Speechless
Not a metaphor, I've had a flu or a bug or something and I've lost my voice. I can't even force something out, everything is just a whisper. I feel tired, but not exceptionally so. I mean, I could sleep, but I could most of the time anyway. Nothing new. I sound like a spy.... Continue Reading →
Am I Now Spry?
It's one of those adjectives to describe old people, which, like all older people, I kind of resent. I'm fifty-six, and it's is one of those ages that, when people of that age die, the younger ones say "Ah, but they've already lived most of their lives". And like everyone my age, I want to... Continue Reading →
Moove your cow, and your mind will follow. 