March 30,2022 – Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹 Our suite during our Porto stay is up 66 steps – at the top of the building. The sunroom faces several other buildings that create an enclosed area. In that area – a pigeon nesting area. Cooing and thoughts of my Grandpa Derksen abound. This is a cityContinue reading “Perspective is Everything”
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Who are “Breakaway Learners”?
Sometimes, happenstance or serendipity, or whatever you want to call it, just happens. Subject line in my overly full email inbox reads: A seemingly out of the blue email from a children’ book author based in US and living at UBC The text: Long story short, I am a visiting scholar at UBC through MarchContinue reading “Who are “Breakaway Learners”?”
Reframing 2018
I’m am writing this blog post as a series of questions but it is actually a reframing of my New Year’s Resolutions. I am undaunted by the fact that I have been writing the same resolutions using different words and forms for many years. To believe that we cannot become better is to admit defeat. Continue reading “Reframing 2018”