One of my favorite parts of my job is the teaching that I get to do every year around this time. One of Oxford’s many charming idiosyncracies is the tutorial system they use for undergraduate teaching. In addition to lectures and labs, each student gets one-on-one or small group tutorials in their fields of study. [...]
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Shotover
Shotover Country Park sits a few miles east of the Oxford city center. The south and west faces of the hill are wooded and engraved with walking, riding and cycling trails. And, on a rare sunny January day in England, it was our destination for a morning walk.
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Wordless Wednesday: Keble and the University Museum
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Constant as a northern star
“On the back of a cartoon coaster
In the blue TV screen light
I drew a map of Canada
Oh Canada
And your face sketched on it twice…”
-Joni Mitchell – “A Case of You”
I’m really leaning on Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” this holiday season. With Christmas nearly upon us, “A Case of You” has been getting nearly as heavy rotation [...]
Wordless Wednesday: O Tannenbaum
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A question of perspective
“You cant go on, thinkin’,
Nothings’ wrong, but bye,
Who’s gonna drive you home,
tonight?”
-The Cars – “Drive”
I may have created some confusion the other day when I wrote about passing my driving test. I am not, in my mid-thirties, learning to drive for the first time – though if you’ve ever ridden with me you may question [...]
Apolitical Friday: Workingman’s Blues
“Meet me at the bottom, don’t lag behind
Bring me my boots and shoes
You can hang back or fight your best on the front line
Sing a little bit of these workingman’s blues…”
-Bob Dylan – “Workingman’s Blues No. 2″
A couple of friends warned me that my political fervor would start to cool after having a child. I’m [...]
Operation Family Outing
Bleinheim Palace was built for John Churchill the Duke of Marlborough by Queen Anne in gratitude for his leading a successful spanking of Louis XIV’s French Army. This gift was given despite Churchill’s bedding of Anne’s father’s, King Charles II, favorite mistress several years earlier. But a good French whooping puts anyone in the good [...]
Game Day: Rebels Come to Town
“Oxford Town, Oxford Town
Ev’rybody’s got their heads bowed down
The sun don’t shine above the ground
Ain’t a-goin’ down to Oxford Town…”
-Bob Dylan – “Oxford Town”
Baby Z and his Dad are pretty excited about today’s Georgia – Ole Miss game in Athens. First, with a 1 p.m. Eastern kick off, we won’t have to be up in [...]
Autumn Leaves
One by one the flowers fading in my garden
One by one the leaves are falling from the trees…”
-Woody Guthrie – “One By One”
While walking through the Parks yesterday, I noticed some of the leaves on the trees around Keble starting to turn and drop. Then while biking home last night a little bit late from [...]
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