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Sunday’s Best: Spice of the Season
There’s a little bit of seasonal humor in the air in the Sunday funnies. Today’s FoxTrot is all about the spice, pumpkin spice, that is. It’s not something that I find particularly appealing, but it’s definitely become part of culture … Continue reading
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Maintenance Work
Week two of fall break has felt significantly different than week one. Week on was full of movies; week two has been full of board/dice games. Week one was about wrapping up the first quarter; week two has been about … Continue reading
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Dark to Dawn
Last week marked ten years since the release of Andrew Peterson’s The Burning Edge of Dawn. It’s an album that has brought much encouragement to me over this last decade, the opening track in particular. Here’s a version of “The … Continue reading
Sunday’s Best: The World When You’re In It
Lots of fun in the Sunday funnies, but a classic Calvin and Hobbes takes the title. FoxTrot has some fun seasonal humor, with Jason trying to use tree-and-property knowledge to his advantage. Canines end up basking in a better light … Continue reading
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Just As I Am [October 6, 2025]
And so fall break begins, not with a bang but with a . . . drizzle? (And a not unwelcome one at that.) Today marks the first full day of fall break, which isn’t totally accurate because an odd overlap … Continue reading
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Sunday’s Best: Sunday Fun-Day
Quite the fun day in the Sunday comics today: There’s a great Calvinball game going on in Calvin and Hobbes, Frazz and Caulfield have an interesting conversation about wake-up times, and A math quiz reveals a serious character flaw in … Continue reading
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Sunday’s Best: Other Ways to Fail
Today’s Sunday-sized WuMo is a great reminder about planning ahead, but it’s today’s FoxTrot that reminds us of something vital in the conversation about AI in academics.
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Sunday’s Best: Summer Extensions
Lots of school and seasonal humor today. FoxTrot points towards the fantasy in fantasy football. Peppermint Patty tries to beat the clock with a math problem. And Calvin? Well it turns out that he’s the neighborhood alarm clock. But it’s … Continue reading
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Twenty Years of The Far Country
This past week, Andrew Peterson celebrated the 20th anniversary of the release of The Far Country. It was the first of his albums after Carried Along that I learned to feel deeply, that tapped into something I was still just … Continue reading
On Reading
I suppose that writing and reading advice can be found just about anywhere these days (assuming that you can’t get something else to read or write for you, which is more likely the case). So it’s a rare pleasure to … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 