Proud Gramie Alert!
Eldest*Grand in her Regalia
National Honor Society, Highest Honors (4.0 average), Medal for Biliteracy,
Medal for Drama, and three bling pins that I still need to investigate.
She was also honoured for serving as student rep on the town selectboard.
She received three local scholarships totaling $9K
on top of her university offering her free tuition for four years
due to her outstanding achievements and leadership potential.
All this and she gets up at 5:00am most mornings to work in the local bakery.
Her chosen major is Wildlife Biology, a chip off her dad: PhD*Son
(who, BTW, flew in from northern Alaska at 7am Saturday morning
and had to leave to fly back to Alaska NWR around 3:30pm Sunday.)
National Honor Society, Highest Honors (4.0 average), Medal for Biliteracy,
Medal for Drama, and three bling pins that I still need to investigate.
She was also honoured for serving as student rep on the town selectboard.
She received three local scholarships totaling $9K
on top of her university offering her free tuition for four years
due to her outstanding achievements and leadership potential.
All this and she gets up at 5:00am most mornings to work in the local bakery.
Her chosen major is Wildlife Biology, a chip off her dad: PhD*Son
(who, BTW, flew in from northern Alaska at 7am Saturday morning
and had to leave to fly back to Alaska NWR around 3:30pm Sunday.)
PS: Photos shared here with parental permission.
Wow, listener, you have quite a grandchild. --nordy
ReplyDeleteWe do. She is also really sweet. And the very first thing she did when she put away her cap and gown? She grabbed the book she's been reading and sat outside with us, reading voraciously. Definitely a bibliophile...and can't blame her...she only had 20 pages left in a 500pp novel! Ha!
DeleteGot up this morning and flipped on the tv just in time to see Marjorie Taylor Greene tell Dr. Fauci he should be in prison. What is wrong with these people? There is no answer, but I know I don't need Greene with my morning coffee. --nordy
ReplyDeletelistener, you and Wil should patent your parenting skills because you made children who are all outstanding and that has gone on to another generation. -Susan
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DeleteWell, it's simple but not easy. I chose to be an at-home Mom, so we gave up having a lot of "things." We valued people above things. Having no help from extended family, we couldn't buy a house until we were nearly 30. Our pattern was natural birth or home birth, baby-led weaning. We didn't use sitters, just took the kids everywhere. Our view was "ideally, discipline is based on loving guidance." Then we made the big decision to home school. Put away the television set for a decade, were vegetarians for a few decades (PhD*Son is still a lifelong vegetarian), and went on a lot of field trips related to books we were reading aloud. We focused on "whoever has the greatest need" and made sure the kids always had resources...art supplies, classic and intelligent toys, took 50+ books home from the Library every couple weeks.
Because of this focus, the kids had to learn to make their own fun, go exploring, do research, and cooperate. We even focused on cooperative sports and games rather than competition (which is only fair since they were all different ages). It's a LOT of work for 7 people to learn how to get along 24/7. The world in microcosm.
Funny how people predicted dire consequences from home schooling...that our kids would never learn how to live in the "real world." Every one of them has been a happy, contributing member of society. I think the key was that they had the chance to discover who they really are and what they care about in life before people had the chance to tell them they had to be some other way or were somehow not good enough. At a time when girls were still not being called upon in math class, our daughter called the author of her math textbook because she found a mistake (she was right). She ended up graduating college magna cum laude with a B.S. in Mathematics.
DeleteMTG is a bomb-throwing hate-filled subhuman always on the attack. -S
ReplyDeleteHi Susan! You have Greene pegged. --nordy
ReplyDeleteI know, nordy. I can't believe the land of "Georgia peaches" sent such a rotten lemon to Congress!
ReplyDeleteRotten indeed. Even her far-right colleagues don't like her. --nordy
DeleteTrump will be on the WA ballot after all, if the secretary of state is to be believed. Seattle Ti mes today: "Trump's felony conviction may not bar him from WA ballot." --nordy
ReplyDeleteYes. Although not precisely identical, this is analogous to states not being able to unilaterally remove his on 14th amendment grounds.
DeleteDrat!
Delete----Alan
Something wierd: I can only hear the cicadas through my right ear. Blocking that ear silences the rasp. But my left ear seems fine for all other sounds.
ReplyDeleteWax?
Delete----Alan
Nope.
DeleteMaybe just some worn out nerves then. I have had high frequency hearing loss since childhood--- bad enough the Army wouldn't take me. Caused by earaches that were not treated with antibiotics. It hurt SO bad . . .
Delete-----Alan
W.A., are you able to hear everything else okay with that ear?
DeleteAlan, Wil has had that same sort of high-frequency hearing loss since childhood, and says it was the best thing that ever happened to him...because he had applied to the Air Force Academy and would have gotten accepted but for that. And in the end he decided he would NOT have made a good soldier.
Wait, I believe you said you *do* hear everything else with your left ear. So, surely it's a specific frequency thing. I wonder if audiologists are getting lots of calls about this.
DeleteI had occasion to visit the supermarket this morning; no mention of Trump on the front pages of the tabloids; checked the National Enquirer and Globe online--same thing. There ought to be Trump scandal enough to sell mountains of tabloids. Are they just slow on the draw, or are they afraid of alienating their customer base? I suspect the latter.
ReplyDelete---Alan
I look forward to the day when we never have to think of him again.
DeleteRecently I saw a short video online posted by a surgeon, making the point that surgeons need steady hands, but as we get on in years we may develop tremors. He said that often it is just a matter of losing hand strength, and demonstrated an exercise I have been trying, which is promising. Take a couple of heavy rubber bands (like the ones often used to bundle asparagus) and slip one over the finger tips and last joint of the thumb on each hand, then spread the fingers, and continue for a while.
ReplyDeleteAnother promising easy exercise: standing upright, swing arms and upper body left and right for a while. I started it pivoting around the hips, and that seemed to help my lower back. Starting yesterday morning I began pivoting at the ankles, which seems to be relieving my legs as well as my lower back.
Your mileage may vary . . .
-----Alan
Have you considered Chair Yoga?
DeleteCan't say as I have.
Delete-----Alan
RNC confuses Milwaukee with Ho Chi Minh City [Click] Brainworms?
ReplyDelete—Alan
Another newspaper struggles for survival. This time it's an American instution. From the Poynter Institute:
ReplyDeleteAftershocks from the earthquake that hit The Washington Post newsroom Sunday night were still being felt on Monday.
Sally Buzbee’s abrupt resignation as executive editor, as well as the plan to replace her, has Washington Post staffers angry, confused and curious about what the future has in store for one of America’s great institutions.
First, let’s start here: Why is Buzbee out after just three years?
It actually goes back five months, when Will Lewis was brought in by owner Jeff Bezos to be the new publisher and CEO. Just last month, Lewis told staff that the Post has suffered stunning financial losses in the past year — some $77 million — and that there had been a 50% drop-off in audience since 2020. --nordy
I partially recall an observation from some years ago about how various things change as time goes by; the old way can't continue, and falls apart before its replacement is fully formed. Take printing with movable type, for instance; the scribes and parchment makers didn't just turn into printers and paper makers overnight. The quality of the Washington Post's reportage and editing deteriorated before their profit and loss statements went south. Same with the NY Times. Same with the Wall Street Journal. Many of the promising online news sites are developing subscriber bases.
Delete----Alan
Video: Dems turn the tables on GOP at their big hearing today [Click]
ReplyDelete—Alan
Trump Can’t Be Kept Off the Ballot in Washington [Click] Aw, shucks.
ReplyDelete——Alan