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I am entering my 21st year as a math teacher at Weston High School, the sole public high school in Weston, MA. It’s also my 44th year as a teacher altogether. In addition to my day job, I taught for 20 years at the Saturday Course in Milton, MA. I also teach at Harvard’s Crimson Summer Academy each summer; 2017 was our 14th consecutive summer.
Sometimes I work on educational software. I also read, cook, and continue building my model railroad whenever I can. For some reason I'm left with less so-called free time than would be ideal. Nevertheless, I manage to devote time to my wife, Barbara, and to our excessive number of cats as well.
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Powerful K–12 art show at Weston
You have one more week to see the powerful art show by Weston K–12 students. (If you click on that link, you may need to wait a minute for all the images to render.) I particularly want to single out the… Read More ›
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Powerful K–12 art show at Weston
You have one more week to see the powerful art show by Weston K–12 students. (If you click on that link, you may need to wait a minute for all the images to render.) I particularly want to single out the… Read More ›
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What happened to the ceiling?
Came home to find that the ceiling in our den now looked like this:
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Barbara’s ancestry
The day before yesterday, I reported the results of my DNA test to determine my ancestry. Barbara had her DNA tested at the same time. To the surprise of no one who knows us, her results were very different from… Read More ›
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Godspell at Weston
Go see tonight’s performance of Godspell at Weston High School! The Theater Company really outdid itself in this terrific ensemble-based production of the famous musical. As I’m sure you know, gentle reader, Godspell is superficially the story of the time before and immediately after… Read More ›
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My ancestry
They got it right! According to ancestry.com, my DNA sample shows And here is the detailed map:
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New England Math Championships
Please congratulate the Weston High School Math Team for their outstanding performance at yesterday’s playoffs for the New England Medium-Size Schools Championship: After a close-fought contest, Weston is now #1 in all of New England! It was all very much… Read More ›
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Your future?
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Winthrop
Never would I have picked the town of Winthrop as the ideal vacation spot… until the confluence of two events: Barbara and I had wanted to find a nearby long-weekend getaway that wouldn’t take much time to travel there and… Read More ›
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The Vocal Fries (yet another linguistics podcast!)
Yet another linguistics podcast has come to my attention! It’s The Vocal Fries, subtitled “the podcast about linguistic discrimination.” This series, now four months old, is of course named for the phonological register commonly called “vocal fry,” but that’s only the starting point…. Read More ›
