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We’ve recently been in touch by email with Jane Moore Jenson (MCHS ’63). She won’t be able to make it to the Oct. 17 reunion in Toronto but she sends best wishes to everyone from ’63. You can read an overview, of Jane’s career as an academic, at the following posts: Jane Jenson, Department of […]
A July 25, 2015 article at the Canadian Stuttering Association website is entitled: Community Involvement and Stuttering. The text, based upon a draft that I wrote on the morning of July 24, 2015 while on vacation in Prince Edward Island, reads as follows: It all began with a problem. The problem was that, fifty years […]
The ‘Top 25 Hottest Articles’ at ScienceDirect at the Journal of Fluency Disorders can be accessed here. I receive this list by email, a few times a year, because I have signed up some years ago to be on the subscription list. This kind of information is of interest in particular for people who stutter, […]
Sometimes I do a good job of getting things done, but sometimes I could do better. For that reason, I’ve been reading about executive function. Executive Function and Child Development (2013) The following text is from p. 8 of Executive Function and Child Development (2013): “In recent years there has been a surge of interest in […]
I’ve recently had the occasion to write a few words about mindfulness meditation. In this post I will add a few words. I attended an eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course at the Meditation for Health medical clinic in Toronto in 2004. It took me over a decade of daily meditation, between 20 and 40 minutes […]
Th title of the book is: The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being (2015). I find the study of interest for several reasons. First, I am interested in the fact that, from a publishing perspective, the book seeks to address a niche market – which, roughly speaking, is the market […]
Update The mural has been moved to the inside of the Small Arms Building. [End of update] Mural at Small Arms Building I have spoken about the mural at the front of the Small Arms Building in previous posts including this one: Long Branch Rifle Ranges, Small Arms Building, and the Arsenal Lands The mural […]
I’ve recently taken a break from work on the MCHS 2015 Reunion, but work has now resumed. My absence from the volunteer task of helping to organize the reunion, a task that focuses on the wider community, of which I am a part, is accounted for by the fact that a government agency alerted me […]
In previous posts I’ve discussed the topic of how we learn: The research defies what we’ve been told: How We Learn (2014) and The Handbook of Language Socialization (2014) Mindfulness stands in contrast to mindlessness Memories are malleable – capable of being stretched or bent into different shapes Teaching I retired as an elementary teacher […]