Tag: chinese calendar

• The Year of the New Decade

  

  I started to compose this blog on January 4th, as part of my annual tradition, and in the three weeks since I drafted the opening paragraph, I: I ended up in the ER. had to close my bank account because someone was creating fraudulent checks. found out a very special person passed away at the…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  January 31, 2020

  holidays, Life, lists, photos, travel, writing

  2020, chinese calendar, Dartmouth, food, food writer, Global Scavenger Hunt, Greece, Greek, joyfulness project, look back, new decade, new year, nostalgia, Teaching English, thassos, top lists, top ten, writing

• I am Tiger

  A QUESTION OF LANGUAGE   My college students read an essay by Gloria Naylor entitled, “A Question of Language,” and I have several things to comment about this experience.   The first is that hooray for me, I actually got my college students reading! Last semester I could have dropped my class into a pot…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  February 11, 2013

  random, teaching

  a question of language, chinese calendar, driving without headlights on, gloria naylor, teaching college english, year of the snake