In literature we always seem to be looking either up or down. It’s the vertical perspective that’s important … Imagination gives us both a better and a worse world than the one we usually live with, and demands that we keep looking steadily at both.

Northrop Frye, from The Educated Imagination

Just one is impossible!

69th: I was a young kid and beyond nervous Edm would lose

75th and 77th: two of the best games ever played

84th: Flutie fumbled. Still not over it.

93rd, 97th, 104th: heart-attack insane

105th: the snow! and Shania! and Calgary lost! magic all around!

Is this a bad time to mention the new clock rules

I think this is one of the very finest poems ever written in English. Haunted by the loss of such a formidable talent, just a week before the Armistice.

The brutish coarseness of Tom Buchanan is unfortunately timeless

Yes. Read it every November 11 and teach it regularly. Its power to draw me into deep, quiet reflection never wanes.

Yes! The beauty and difficulty of teaching is that every day is a clean slate. No laurels to rest on, but a fresh start whenever you need one --

Will be sharing it. Always keep track of ed events south of the border, as things sometimes find their way up to us in Canada --

The tough part of teaching is that it's emotionally demanding to the point where it sometimes brings stuff to the surface that even we aren't aware of.

The good part is that every day is a new day. Hope a fresh start is restorative!