….what’s on my mind?

There’s a new bridge in Kingston. It’s been so long that the last time I posted, construction hadn’t begun on the third crossing.

What kind of town do we live in when a third bridge (and the only one owned/operated by the city) is greeted with rapture? Oh, and who at city hall, having had at least four years to think about it, absolutely sh!t the bed on traffic management on the west side?

There was a pandemic. It involved masks, trucks, an emergencies act, jabs, and a small fortune in disinfectant gel. I held out hope that at the very least some new habits, to include regular hand washing, might take hold. Not sure if we’re ready to change.

We continue to be led by some of the stupidest politicians imaginable. It turns out a Ukrainian comedian and actor put every western politician to shame.

The 1970s are back – inflation is a thing again. Hang on to your hats folks, its going to be a bumpy ride.

….hiatus

Its been a few years – four and a bit, to be fair – since I last posted here. Lets be honest, I have neglected this blog egregiously. Not that anyone missed it to be honest.

In my defence, about a week or so after my last post in Nov 2018, I was called away suddenly to say goodbye to my father. While it wasn’t a shock, he had completed chemo as far as was going to be helpful, and the doctors gave him fair warning in April of that year. Still, the blog became least important thing to my mind, and any thought of restarting disappeared when my mother followed her husband into the great mystery only two weeks later.

Of the many things we attempt to keep track of in our lives, this blog fell right to the bottom.

Will I start up again? Maybe, but probably will need something useful to say – and I am not certain that I can add much of value to the nearly infinite and expanding universe of digits floating around the web. We shall see.

….more adventures in deep thought

“…science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education practices-as-usual (re)produce systems of dominance: be it patriarchy, heteronormativity, white supremacy, Eurocentrism, (neo-)colonialism, able-ism, classism, labor inequity, anthropocentrism, and/or others. Thankfully, there are many who are doing the critical and creative work of (re)opening STEM education to the possibility of eco-social justice…”