Recommendations

Articles

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/opinion/marie-gluesenkamp-perez.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share. This is different and interesting, if we are live in a United States

Stop Meeting Students Where They Are

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/youth-reading-books-professors/685825/?utm_medium=offsite&utm_source=flipboard&utm_campaign=all

Unusual Things: At a local supermarket, the in-store Starbucks is next to the self check out space; while Kernie was ordering a coffee, a man interrupted to ask the barrista if she could scan his groceries……..

Podcasts:  Try Blue Dog Radio; it is recommended in the above article and after one listen, I am curious and engaged by the questions and answers put to people working in the non-urban world. It has some surprises.

This introductory podcast has a narrator that is out of “Evening Breeze”—almost a Sam Elliot voice which detracted for me but the substance of the talk was real and revealing.

Movie:  Hamnet—I bawled….

Streaming:

Ponies/ Peacock

Steal. Prime/BBC

Night Manager/ Prime

Books:  White Lotus (John Hersey) those who don’t pay attention to history……

Written in Bone (Black)—for nerdy Docs or mystery fans.

David and Goliath (Malcolm Gladwell)