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The last day of school before Winter Break was Friday, December 18. At the beginning of the last block of the day, I had a student, with con...

Over 1,300 students, teachers, and chaperones took possession of the Greater Richmond Convention Center on November 22-23, 2009. By all acco...

We return to school tomorrow after a five days away; before that we had only a two-day week. Needless to say, the students will not be their...

We came across this line in our AP Vergil class recently: Quos inter medius venit furor (I.348) and I finally took the time to really notic...

The first marking period has now come and gone. Report cards have been distributed, and students' abilities, interests, and efforts are ...

Aeneas and his surviving crew are shipwrecked somewhere in northern Africa. He and his right-hand man Achates set off to take a look around ...

I have encouraged my students this year to read and translate their Latin passages in the order in which they appear, left to right. We have...

All Hallow's Eve has come and gone, and here I sit in the early morning. The time will fall back soon, so I will get an extra hour of sl...

" Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra ?" It has been quite some time since these words have been heard aloud in ...

I watched The True Story of Troy (The History Channel, 2007) on the History International Channel last night. I try to watch as many docume...

I read an article in the local paper this morning about how small businesses must cater to their clients in order to establish working relat...

It has been said that Julius Caesar is the most famous Roman of them all. Everyone has heard about Caesar and something of his exploits (rig...

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...