Retrospect: the baseball
Self-tutoring about how things disappear and where they go: the tutor reflects. Before summer was halfway gone, I went for a run, like often, at the field. It was a hot evening, with little breeze, and the sun was still …
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Retrospect: back to school
Self-tutoring about back-to-school memories: the tutor reflects. There was a kid I knew in grades 4, 5 and 6. He was very popular, but I didn’t know him outside of school. Let’s call him Roy, but that wasn’t his name. …
Retrospect: Shaun Cassidy: “Da Doo Run Run”
Self-tutoring about ’70s culture: the tutor reflects about Shaun Cassidy. I recall “Da Doo Run Run” from the late ’70s. I didn’t know it was a cover, or even that the ’77 version was by Shaun Cassidy. It was a …
Retrospect: the window column
Self-tutoring about my school years: the tutor reflects on lost memory. One year of my life I reflect on perhaps more than others is fifth grade. I moved often as a kid because my father was in the military. Therefore, …
Retrospect: people I recall, continued….
Self-tutoring about people who stand out in memory: the tutor mentions one from his past. I met many characters at university, including my wife. Most people at university were there to get a career. There were others, however, whose motivation …
Retrospect: the lab partner, part 0
Self-tutoring about life in the past: the tutor reflects about a lab partner he had. In university, I didn’t like labs much. I took physics and chemistry first and second year, but afterwards I’d had enough of labs. That’s why …
Retrospect: the arcade, part 0
Self-tutoring about life in the past: the tutor recalls and reflects…. Video games came out when I was a kid – PacMan, for instance, when I was 11. I never played PacMan much, but I loved video arcades. They were …
Retrospect: vacant lots
Self-tutoring about vacant lots: the tutor reflects…. I lived in the Annapolis Valley from ages 10 to 13. They were some of the best years of my life. The school had three playgrounds: a big school, it was, K-7, 700 …
Retrospect: The “Deep Breakfast” chronicle, continued
Self-tutoring about then and now: the tutor continues about a time from the early 90s. Continuing the reflection from yesterday’s post: the three of us, as we listened to Deep Breakfast, seemed to be losing ground. For each of us, …
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Retrospect: “Deep Breakfast”
Self-tutoring about how the past and present align: the tutor reflects… Back in the early ’90s I had a couple of friends; we three spent much time together for a year or two. We’d already known each other from a …