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Well, it’s summertime, and the living is easy (sort of). One of the most beautiful things about the teaching profession is that, no matter how terrible a year you have, you have something to look forward to—a time to reflect, recalibrate, and recover.  As you may have surmised from my past emails, that opportunity was…

A warning: today is going to be unusually long, even by my standards.  Today’s adventures in public miseducation today bring you “PBIS”: a concept so strange and nonsensical that, instead of the usual three-letter acronym that the Industrial-Educratic Complex is so fond of, it requires four.  PBIS stands for “Positive Behavior Initiatives and Supports.” In…

Since I am now on spring break, and since I have effectively dropped off the radar for the past few months, I wanted to take a few minutes to send out an update. Once again, I’m very sorry to anyone who has attempted to contact me over the past few months. While never a great…

Feliz Navidad, Happy New Year, and Happy Hanukah to you all. Once again, my good intentions to send out an actual Christmas letter have been thwarted by circumstances and my own desperate attempts to keep my head above water, so this will have to do. First off, I want to say both “Thank You” and…

My goodness gracious, but it has been an eventful year (even if it is only half over!) Although, as any of you who have tried to call me can attest, I have never been the world’s most accessible communicator, this past six months has been so full of excitement that I sometimes feel that I’ve…

My, my, my, what a busy couple of months (and particularly the past few weeks) this has been! Being archaic and old-fashioned, it is my hope and good intention eventually to start sending out an annual Christmas letter (as in, actual paper-and-ink, requiring a stamp, lick-the-envelope, etc.) However, since we do not at present have…

You’re receiving this because at some point over the past five years, you got signed up to get my updates about my adventures, whether those adventures happened to be in Mexico, Canada, or Ghana. As the vast majority of you probably know, the year and change that has passed since my last update in Ghana…

It seems strange and a bit sad to realize that my Ghanaian adventure is nearly over. Two more days, and I will be heading back to Accra for the long trip home. This past week or so has been full of last-minute scrambles to try and make the most of the little time that remains.…

It has been a very fully week, and it is hard to believe that myGhanaian adventures are over half over. The biggest adventure recentlywas my trip down the hill to Accra last Thursday to interview some ofthe faculty members of Trinity theological seminary, which is anothertheological graduate school in the area. So, once again, afterbreakfast,…

Onyame adom ne mo nsem! [Which, I think, is butchered Twi for “The grace of God be with you all!” My attempts at conversation are occasions for much laughter around here, but I figure that the important thing is to try, right?] After my adventures at the airport, I arrived safe and sound after about a…