With our return to campus came the return to the Horse Program for a good many of our students. After riding our horses back from Pasture (an area on the other side of the valley) on Wednesday and getting out to the Gymkhana Field to practice our skills on Thursday and Friday, it was time […]
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Gear-shifting
Late morning, most any Saturday. My colleagues are rebuilding the hog pen, plotting a compost bin reconstruction, getting gear and athletes together for an away game or match, assessing homework and labs, meeting one-on-one with a student in the dining room to line out the essay due next week, setting up sound equipment for the […]
The Big Warm
Remember three decades ago, The Big Chill, a breakout film for Glenn Close, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum, Meg Tilley, JoBeth Williams, and–as the dead guy whose face no one ever sees, Kevin Costner? (Clearly, I’m beyond worrrying about dating myself.) The first morning the old college friends are together, each comes into the […]
Thacher Students Burst Bubble at UCLA Model UN
We frequently talk about how the Thacher bubble cuts us off from what’s happening in the rest of the world. The thickness of this bubble seems to increase during the latter part of each trimester, as the build-up of tests, projects, and exams causes us all to become even more inward looking. Despite this tendency, […]
Zest
Reply from a 9th grader to an email I sent to the whole school re: start time of our Saturday night Open Home: SO SIKED!!! Spelling, schmelling. Three cheers for unfiltered, unspell-checked enthusiasm.