To all the 2020 graduands, congrats! And for the rest of us grads, future and past, let’s rest on our virtual laurels for a moment and consider the conquest that’s been. Many of our peers would shudder to attempt distance education. AU is not for the faint of heart or slack of skill. We learn… Read more »
Winter Solstice 2020: it’s cold, it’s dark, and it’s isolated. As the sun’s light declines to its nadir we might wonder what there even is to celebrate. Like receiving an outstanding course mark by email and then looking around and realizing with a sigh that nothing tangible has changed in our immediate environs, the turning… Read more »
It is the oddest thing, I could not find eggnog this year, no matter where I looked. If you found some and have enjoyed it, that’s fantastic. But in my case necessity birthed some looking around online and through several of my cookbooks to find some decent recipes. The following is a hybrid of the… Read more »
A body in motion stays in motion. The more time we spend learning skills, the more our focus turns into passion–and the quicker we arrive at mastery. Like an exponential curve, the more we fixate on developing a skill, the faster we move along that curve until we turn upward into the heights. That’s where… Read more »
Holiday Stress-Shopping It’s no secret: being an adult equals stress. Some adults are more stressed than others, some handle it better than others, and some prefer to pretend they’re Peter Pan and hope for the best. Then, once a year, you have your “festive stress” to add to the list. Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas,… Read more »
Dear Barb: Bah Humbug! This is going to be the worst Christmas ever. This COVID virus has devastated so many of my family and friends. Although I don’t know anyone who has actually got the virus, but the fighting has ruined so many relationships. The people who believe the doctors and health officials want to… Read more »
“It’s freezing out there!” We’ve all been that person who bursts in from the cold, accompanied by a bracing gust of frigid air. Greeted by icy stares we slink away to our study corner. Winter is a challenging time for AU students as the indoor biped population increases. More people in the abode can mean… Read more »
There is probably a shirt out there somewhere that says, “Either you like tacos, or you’re wrong!” I have one with that saying about bacon, so I’m sure a taco one exists. This recipe is a fusion chicken taco recipe between Caribbean jerk seasoning and Mexican tacos. This chicken is not a traditional jerked chicken… Read more »
At times we need better ways to memorize facts than simply rereading texts, which can be cumbersome and, frankly, time wasting. What we need instead is the silver bullet of memorization mastery, called mnemonics. And, in the case not even mnemonics works, I’ve covered other methods of memorization for us to try as well. I… Read more »
A notorious recent exposition of the vicissitudes implied by post-truth culture is Jeff Orlowski’s documentary titled The Social Dilemma. At first blush the show elucidates just how far social media has permeated our culture and our consciousness. Yet, when pressed to describe the problem in words (not only feelings, as would fit the standard definition… Read more »