My Son the Scholar

Posted on March 10, 2006

Several of the people who organize Shore Leave are teachers and have therefore spoken well of Towson University. When Robbie started talking about becoming a teacher, they advised him to check it out.Last August, we did. It was a week or two before classes began and the Admissions people were unavailable. In fact, no one […]

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The New Book Discussion

Posted on March 10, 2006

Last night I attended another book discussion at the Library. Unlike the previous two, which focused on baseball, this will be regarding mysteries. Our speaker, a dean at Yale, decided our four books and discussion would involve the eternal triangle of the reader, the book and the author.There are times, he argues, where we challenge […]

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