Category: Teaching & Learning

One Day

“Write on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”  R. W. Emerson What a difference a day makes. It may not seem like a very big deal but today is a new year. A new beginning for some. A fresh start. For me, I usually start my “new year” at…

By Mirm January 1, 2025 0

Advances in Treatment

Not often, but once in awhile after seeing an ad on TV or hearing of another person with the dreaded disease, I wonder what would have happened if Jim had gotten GBM4 today versus 14 years ago. The majority of brain cancers are highly invasive and rarely spreads to other parts of the body beyond…

By Mirm October 29, 2024 0

Life in a Bubble

I have become aware of something weird. I am not sure of the relationship between being a housed homeless person and my current perspective and perception of my life. But it feels a bit like Rip van Winkle who slept for 40 years and woke up and life was so different. I think I have…

By Mirm September 1, 2024 0

Happy New School Year #35

It is almost “New Year’s” – for me September and back-to-school has always felt more like a new year than January 1st. January just feels like an extension of the Christmas holidays, but clean-up mode. We used to get new clothes, notebooks, shoes, and similar paraphernalia. Everything was clean and crisp. It was a chance…

By Mirm August 30, 2024 0

Writer’s block

Sometimes people read the things I write and say I should publish a book, but most of my posts go unread or very lightly skimmed and there are no comments.  I must say I have no idea what I would write about for a whole book. I used to think of ideas and collaborations with…

By Mirm August 24, 2024 4

Giving our Best

When I was growing up, it was fairly common for the church to send used clothes and leftover items to missionaries in barrels. I actually am not sure if real barrels were used, but that is what they were called. I also remember the concept of the parsonage in which the pastor and his family…

By Mirm August 8, 2024 0