AKMA’s Random Thoughts

Greetings From Holland

Not the Netherlands, but Holland, Michigan, where I’ve skulked off to a wifi cafe (appropriately named Buzz Café), ostensibly to check on Josiah’s tournament scores, but also to check email and to watch for comment pollution. Unfortunately, Si’s tournament seems not to have followed through on their “live scoring” page.

We’re in Holland to celebrate Pentecost and our goddaughter’s birthday. It’s a nice little Michigan town, and Buzz (the most interesting point in town, as far as I’m concerned) has a great signal, a large-screen TV showing a baseball game, and good coffee (our friends are tea drinkers).

I don’t have time to muse here about this essay to which Jeff Ward pointed. (At first I just followed Jeff’s path toward “the rhetoric of ‘I am an alcoholic,’ ” but then I backtracked and found an essay on writing-in-public that bears reflection in light of Seabury’s curriculum and our expectation that students use publicly-accessible weblogs at various points in their studies. My quick response is that our mission specifically includes preparing students to be public communicators — that differentiates us at least a little from a university writing program. Still, I’m set back a pace or two by the unanticipated ramifications of a classroom essay, and I’ll be mulling the matter over through the summer.