Serendipities

equiminous, adj.

Why would we choose to be disadvantaged?

It was the first day back at school this morning, and we had all the usual restless apprehension in the car on the way in: half of us looking forward to the start of the year, the other half already looking forward to the end of it.

In the Army, we talked about two kinds of courage: physical and moral.

Field Notes from Bari, Italy, 2026 One of my children steadfastly holds that school is “the opposite of holiday.”

For over forty years, my favourite colour has been fluorescent pink.

We are all collecting immense amounts of data on student wellbeing these days.

I was determined this year not to tell our graduates to be the best at something.

Living Among the Oxymorons “We live our lives filled with wild contradictions” David Berliner It’s fairly clear I’m an oxymoron.

An old colleague said to me recently, with predictable exasperation, that students who do not hold the door open simply do not have good manners.