People have been marking—and often celebrating—the passing of time for all of recorded history. As the most easily observable markers of time, days and seasons, were the first to be recorded. It won’t surprise anyone that people living in places with readily observable seasonal changes were the first to use calendars to track the passing […]
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Posted December 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 December 2019 December 31st, 2019 | Tags: ancestors, ancient, behaviors, better, birthdays, calendar, change, Christmas, Christmas Carol, Dickens, Gregorian Calendar, holidays, Merry Christmas, New Year's, Pope Gregory, reflection, renewal, spiritual, Spring, time, winter | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted March 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 March 2019 I’m an old-fashioned guy, and I believe in words—verbal communication. I had read Herman Melville’s Moby Dick twice by the time I was out of high school. I’m also the only guy I know not some-kind of minister who has read the Bible twice. I read it once out of curiosity while I was still […] March 31st, 2019 | Tags: auditory, Bible, Christianity, comic books, Dickens, emoji, emotional component, evil, good, Herman Melville, high school, images, labor-intensive, language, literature, minister, Moby Dick, novas, obscene gesture, old-fashioned, reading, sailing vessels, Stories, verbal description, visual, visual images, Walt Disney, western language, whaling, whiteness, words | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted May 31, 2017 in Monthly News By Joel and Debra, on 31 May 2017 We are at our best when we are playing. When we are playing, we are having fun, and this month we decided we would do some playing with the newsletter format. Previously, we have written separate articles for the monthly newsletters, and this month we decided to try something new and co-create one article. As […] May 31st, 2017 | Tags: 1964, candy factory, co-creation, collaboration, comedy, Dickens, fun. teaching, funeral of Chuckles, game, Hard Times, having fun, having fun while learning, I Love Lucy, if you know what I mean, improv, improvisational, joy, laughter, laughter is the best medicine, learning, learning through play, M'Choakumchild, Mary Tyler Moore, movies, Norman Cousins, play, play dough, playing, Props, Questions Only, Rabbi Ben Ezra, sitcoms, spare the rod, spoil the child, television, TV comedy shows, Vitamin C, Whose Line | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed |
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