Although my students and I welcome any breaks we can get in the quarter system, tomorrow’s holiday deserves more than just casual notice. Military.com provides us with a very interesting history of the Veteran’s Day holiday. Here’s a short excerpt: “Veterans Day, formerly known as Armistice Day, was originally set Read more…
As many of you know, our daughter Kristin serves as a Captain in the US Army. Although she is not currently deployed abroad, she did serve for 13 months in Iraq–very long months for Mr F, her sisters, and me. Now Xerox is doing something really cool for our soldiers Read more…
Today’s news from the Trojan football website gives me a great opportunity to combine two topics I really love–football and psychology. In a video posted on the site, USC football players are hypnotized by stage hypnotist Ricky Kalmon. With Kalmon’s suggestions, the players forget their names, introduce themselves as celebrities Read more…
A comment by one of my students in response to a previous post sent me back to the literature to look at work by James Pennebaker of the University of Texas, Austin. Pennebaker has written extensively on the health benefits of expressive writing. He generously provides pdf files of most Read more…
Many thanks to our friend Emonome for noticing that my blog is a finalist for the 2007 Weblog award in the “Best Individual Blogger” category. I am truly humbled by this recognition, and many thanks to those of you who nominated me for this honor. All I set out to do Read more…