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Category: retrospect

Retrospect: chemistry: the last lab course

By Jack Posted on November 5, 2020 Posted in retrospect

Self-tutoring about past events: the tutor reflects on the last lab course he took. Chemistry was my favorite subject in grade 12. I had planned to take a chemistry/biochemistry degree at university, so in first and second year I took …

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Retrospect: the graveyard

By Jack Posted on October 25, 2020 Posted in retrospect

Self-tutoring about past events: the tutor reflects… As I mention in yesterday’s post, exploring the forest was important to me as a kid. I had a little motorbike, of course, so venturing miles away was easy. One time a friend …

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Retrospect: exploration lands, part 0

By Jack Posted on October 23, 2020 Posted in retrospect

Self-tutoring about situations in the past: the tutor reflects. When I was 12 I got a motorbike – a little Honda 50. It was old, but after a trip to the shop, ran fine. Behind our house was land that …

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Retrospect: Pepsi platform sneakers

By Jack Posted on October 4, 2020 Posted in retrospect

Self-tutoring about style: the tutor recalls Pepsi platform sneakers. Likely, Pepsi platform sneakers were the first fashion product I realized. Sometime in the late 70s, I recall, they arrived. It may have been ’78, springtime. I noticed someone wearing a …

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Retrospect: the baseball

By Jack Posted on September 12, 2020 Posted in retrospect

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

By Jack Posted on September 10, 2020 Posted in retrospect

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. …

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Retrospect: Shaun Cassidy: “Da Doo Run Run”

By Jack Posted on August 16, 2020 Posted in retrospect

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 …

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Retrospect: the window column

By Jack Posted on August 13, 2020 Posted in retrospect

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, …

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Retrospect: people I recall, continued….

By Jack Posted on August 1, 2020 Posted in retrospect

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 …

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Retrospect: the lab partner, part 0

By Jack Posted on July 20, 2020 Posted in retrospect

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 …

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