There are some life events so shocking, it is hard to imagine we will ever recover. It took me about a decade. But events like that never truly leave you. If I listen carefully, I can still hear the echoes of his abandonment. The detail of that evening is with me still. I can replay it in my mind at a moment’s notice. That it happened at all—and that it happened to me—remains beyond all comprehension. Blindsided by the person you love. The foolishness of not seeing a situation for what it is. The humiliation of being wrong(ed). We had been together five years and lived in an apartment in a nice part of the city. When we spoke on...
Cosmic horror is one of cinema history's hardest subgenres to land almost by definition, as one of the central elements of a good cosmic horror story is that the horror by definition comes from forces outside our comprehension, sometimes outside the boundaries of what we know to be possible. It takes a masterful set of strokes to translate the incompressible into a distilled visual medium like the cinematic arts. Collaborators Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have time and again provided original, thoughtful, often emotional takes on that cinematic terrain, in films like "The Endless," "Spring," and "Resolution" (all films they direct, write, shoot, edit, and frequently star in). The multi-hyphenate monster makers are back at it again with a new mind-bending outing, "Something...
As a human physiology instructor, one of the most frequent comments I get from students is about how hard the course is. In fact, I have started to bring this up right at the beginning of the semester and offer my students many ways to overcome the challenges, including keeping up with the reading and the homework, coming to office hours with questions, forming study groups, etc… There are several reasons why the students struggle with the physiology course. Physiology can be hard for students due to the amount of material and the nature of the subject which requires integrating knowledge from other fields such as anatomy, biochemistry, cell biology, physics, and chemistry. There is also a lot of heterogeneity...
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LEAF it to me… The Best Fall Picture Books to Read Aloud! Looking for the BEST fall picture books to read aloud to your elementary students? You’re in luck, there are so dang many. But you know what? There are so many good ones out there, that it’s really hard to pick “the BEST”. So I picked ones that I enjoyed, and your students most certainly will as well! (And if you’re in the back-to-school season, make sure to check out my post on the BEST back-to-school picture books!). Keep reading to learn all about these autumn picture books! Don’t forget to scroll to the bottom to snag a FREE reading comprehension color by number worksheet The Best Fall Picture...
