I have much to be thankful for - especially this year. I am grateful that parts of my brain sometimes still work and that I get to live in a place saturated in history that I do not have time to see or research. I am grateful for friends from school who remind me why I came here, for all the people who have emailed to remind me why I will be so glad to be back in Asheville, and Bob, who has done an amazing job of keeping up my spirits, keeping in touch with the kids and keeping everything running smoothly.
This month has been a constant series of reading journal articles and books - and writing papers. Frivolous writing (such as this) and reading (such as a newspaper) have been abandoned for frivolous writing of a different sort. I have written policy memos justifying placements or non-placement in special education, a letter to Barak Obama making policy recommendations for No Child Left Behind, a project proposal to survey neuroscientists and educators about just who is traveling on that bridge between cognitive neuroscience and educational practice - my prediction is that they aren't even on the same highway!
There have been moments of serendipity and they are as follows:
These people spoke to me today at MIT's Learning and the Brain Conference. They allowed the grad students to attend for free if we would do a little slave labor.
John Gabrieli and Maryanne Wolf spoke to our group today. Dr. Gabrieli is a frequent speaker in our program. Both of these people were impressive
M.Wolf's book http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=maryanne+wolf&x=0&y=0
This is the latest Busey accomplishment - - - that we can speak about publicly! Scroll to the bottom of the page.
Em is coming home for Thanksgiving! That is an unexpected surprise. Would anyone be willing to drive out to Seattle to bring her dog to Asheville?
This is what Andy wants for Thanksgiving:
This, according to our son, is a turbaconducken.
Amy is no longer in Thailand. We can say with certainty that she is somewhere in Asia - we think!
A prize goes to the person who can tell me who this is:
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