On the 19th October (2016), I wrote about my reaction to the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario (ACBO)-sponsored family life education program, called Fully Alive (http://acbo.on.ca/fully-alive/). The ACBO web site describes Fully Alive as: … intended to pass on a distinctively Catholic view of human life, sexuality, marriage, and family. Its goal is to … Continue reading
On Monday October 17th 2016, my daughter arrived home from her day at an elementary school, which is part of the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario (CDSBEO), Canada. She handed me a letter based on the Fully Alive program of sexual education, espoused by the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario (ACBO; http://acbo.on.ca/fully-alive/). … Continue reading
In class this week, we were given ten minutes to wite a piece that was inspired by a reading from Lia Purpura’s selection of essays On Looking… Purpura, L. (2006). Autopsy report. In, On looking: Essays, pp. 1–8. Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books. Autopsy Report was, for most of us, rather emotional. The free-writing which came … Continue reading
Our second week on the academic writing class, and just as enjoyable as the first. A first class second class (OK, I’ll stop doing that now)… Based on the following work: Warland, B. (2010). The table. In B. Warland, Breathing the page: Reading the act of writing (pp. 75–77). Toronto, ON: Cormorant Books. Use Warland’s … Continue reading
