Retrospect: Jimbo
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor reflects. One time in grade five, the teacher told us to write a story about someone in the class, with one catch: it was meant to be about someone you …
Category: retrospect
Retrospect: Thanksgiving decorations
Self-tutoring about the Thanksgiving time of year: the tutor reflects… When I was a kid, I lived in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, from April of grade four to the end of grade seven. It was a formative time of …
Retrospect: my sister’s preschool
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor reflects… My sister is two years younger than I am. Nowadays, who cares? However, when we arrived on the base in PEI, she was 4 and I was 6. It …
Retrospect: the elementary school
Self-tutoring about people, places, and events from the past: the tutor reflects about a place his sister and he used to frequent. When we lived in the Annapolis Valley, my grandparents lived about 7 miles away, in a slightly bigger …
Retrospect: Smedley
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor mentions someone he never knew. Ages 11-13, I started going to a video arcade. They were the rage then; in a way we were lucky to have one in such …
Retrospect: Choco Loto
Self-tutoring about people, events, and products of the past: the tutor reflects…. I recall, back in grade 5, at Halloween, noticing a new chocolate bar: Choco Loto. I never had one, as far as I remember: I stuck to chocolate …
Retrospect: the mansion
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor mentions the mansion. Back in the Annapolis Valley, I didn’t live on the base; we lived in a village near it. Many of the local kids had lived there all …
Retrospect: “super pills”
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor reflects… When I moved to the base on PEI in summer ’76, it started out really fun. As I’ve hinted elsewhere, the air slowly escaped from the balloon, but it …
Philosophy, retrospect: the end of wonder
Self-tutoring about people, events, and ideas of the past: the tutor reflects… On a beautiful summer day such as today has been, I often spin back into the past: how did I spend such days when I was a kid? …
Retrospect: when you don’t go back, part0
Self-tutoring about life transitions: the tutor reflects. With school recently ending for another year, many people won’t return to that one. They might’ve graduated from high school, for instance, so will proceed to college. Perhaps they just finished grade 5, …