I’m sitting in a narrow, windowless room off the Ventura County Hall of Justice, three days before the pre-season athletes and riders return to Thacher for the start of the school year. Officially, I’m in the “Telephone Room”–and there is, in fact, one AT&T pay phone attached to the oddly carpeted wall. Two bare places […]
At the start of July, a particularly sporty friend–the kind who believes a vacay-day is squandered if it doesn’t include at least two athletic “adventures”–asked innocently what my goals were for my time here in the Tetons. “Goals? Are you kidding? I come up here to get away from goals!” Guilt–mine–set in before I’d put […]
It is a beautiful time of year in Ojai. I just drove back from a dinner in town with my advisees and we could smell the orange blossoms from Grand Ave. all the way up to campus. It can be very easy to be removed from world events while living in this bucolic setting. […]
Confirmed: my strong sense of school-as-home in terms of shared values. The proof: two recent events, neither unusual at CdeP, but both, I think, worthy of pen-to-paper. First, an email from a freshman to the whole School, this past Saturday night: Swiss army knife found near Upper School after the pig roast. Has a large […]
“How was your daughter’s graduation?” “Hey! How was the graduation this weekend?” “How’d it go this weekend? Your daughter was graduating, right?” Three’s definitely a charm in this case, or at least charming: the first three students I ran into on Monday morning after Big Gymkhana Family Weekend–the biggest, most populous, high-spirited, tradition-rich, all-School community […]