Can we learn from my students about ground rules for public discourse?
I started teaching today. It is a team-taught class, “Great Issues,” required for all incoming MA students. It has both a lecture...
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deborahavant
- Aug 11
- 4 min
Did Altoids just change my relationship with my dad?
So…it has come up in my musings before that my dad has dementia. It is vascular dementia, which means it is not all about forgetting...
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deborahavant
- May 27
- 9 min
What I learned on my trip to Budapest
It seemed innocuous at the start. A former student, now a professor, directing a center at a Budapest university invited me to come and...
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deborahavant
- Mar 20
- 4 min
Reflecting on ISA
I went to yoga this morning. First time in a week. Felt great. As I went to set my intention, though, I had to pause. The last few months...
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deborahavant
- Jan 15
- 3 min
Coming home
Last week I flew into DC. I have been there a couple of times since the pandemic but this was a longer and more official trip to host a...
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deborahavant
- Jan 2
- 5 min
Musings for the new year
2022 was a year. Not only in global politics but in my life. It was not all bad, but it was intense. I have grown to wonder if this is...
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deborahavant
- Dec 2, 2022
- 4 min
A Call From a Los Vegas Hospital
I got a call yesterday from Los Vegas and didn’t answer. I don’t know anyone there. I thought it was likely a robocall of some sort. But...
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deborahavant
- Aug 25, 2022
- 3 min
When you take your parents on vacation
I took my mom and dad to Santa Fe last weekend. I have met them I Santa Fe many times since I have been an adult. And they used to take...
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deborahavant
- Aug 18, 2022
- 3 min
Confessions of a baker
At some point during COVID, I became an addict. It wasn’t at the beginning but sometime during the fall of 2020 I decided to make my own...
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deborahavant
- Aug 11, 2022
- 2 min
Why do we count what we count?
I have challenged myself in August to either hike 10+ miles or write 1,000+ words each day. (See pic from Saturday's hike.) Yesterday, I...
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deborahavant
- Aug 4, 2022
- 3 min
All the other stuff
I blog in a number of places about "serious" things; my posts here are intended to be about all the other stuff - hiking, cycling,...
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deborahavant
- Sep 11
- 3 min
Can we learn from my students about ground rules for public discourse?
I started teaching today. It is a team-taught class, “Great Issues,” required for all incoming MA students. It has both a lecture...
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deborahavant
- Aug 11
- 4 min
Did Altoids just change my relationship with my dad?
So…it has come up in my musings before that my dad has dementia. It is vascular dementia, which means it is not all about forgetting...
97 views0 comments
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