MARGINALIA

This is what happens when you don't prune back columns as they grow. I took this photograph in Paestum in July 2005.

We have put AP Latin Literature to bed -- hopefully for not too long a nap. The College Board will issue their proclamation soon about what ...

It is Memorial Day and tomorrow we will enter what I have come to call the tatters of the year. The AP and state exams are over. The weather...

Imagine my surprise as I was driving along Route 1 in Ashland and we spied this Pegasus on the side of road! Makes me feel sort of like Bell...

I was listening the other day to a colleague who teaches Spanish. She was talking about the difference between -ar verbs and -er verbs. Sh...

but there are reports of elephants in the Alps. Disturbing news arrived from the county administration office today. In anticipation of a ve...

I have begun a project of which Psyche would have been proud. I am storing all of my notes, handouts, quizzes, tests, and other school-perti...

We returned today from a very poor showing at the Classical Cottage Certamen. For the first time since I transfered to Riverbend, no teams p...

There is an excellent piece in today's (1/3/09) The Writer's Almanac about J.R.R. Tolkien and the power of language . The best quot...

I took some of my students on a real fieldtrip to the National Gallery of Art . We took a day over Winter Break, boarded the Virginia Railwa...

While grading Latin I tests yesterday, I came across some interesting notes a student had scribbled in the margin of her paper. In the secti...

Time for another posting a picture for the heck of it. This is the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aphaia in the Saronic Gulf. I too...

In Latin II class today we were reading the werewolf story in Chapter 33 of Ecce Romani II . The students thought it odd that the slave and ...

While looking online recently for a good Latin quote on love, I found amore, more, ore, re I stopped. I reread the quote. I thought this was...

I have gotten into the habit of introducing figures of speech to my Latin I and II students when we come across them. In Ecce Romani I, ...

The first thing we visited on my very first trip to Rome as a student in 1982 was the Pantheon. This magnificent building remains my favorit...

The harpy Celaeno, offended by the Trojans for the slaughter of her cattle, prophesies to Aeneas, " ibitis Italiam portusque intrare li...

I have read several articles over the past few days concerning the claim that the bronze statue of the Capitoline Wolf, that iconic image fr...

The 61st Annual Institute of the American Classical League has come and gone and I sit to write about it from the other side of a short fami...

I have been ignoring this blog for way too long. It is time to get back to writing and putting down into words my thoughts and ideas about L...