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Hey all. First autumn/winter holiday done and gone, slip this one on educating our youth in before the next one creeps up on us. Transcript on the blog ! Cheers, revel.

Hey all! Happy Halloween! I wrote this story years ago for a spooky story contest (which I won!). Then, two years ago, I expanded on it for a longer work called Haunted Houses , which I wrote for the National Noviember Writing Month activity (NaNoWriMo). I've lifted it from that longer work and reworked it into a stand-alone for this episode. That music you hear in the spooky sections is the theme...

Hey all! Quick look at the movie Shirley . Won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I enjoyed it. Don't think you'll know until you've seen it, so be prepared to either love / like / hate / dislike the next 107 minutes of your cinema experience! Transcript on the blog . peace, revel.

Hey! It’s been bumping around in my head for months, I’ve even alluded to it in earlier discussions, especially when I speak of Covid-19 as a social disease. I’ve even had a feeling of the concept coagulating or setting like Jell-o in my mind over the last couple of days as I engage in the single-theme conversations that fill in time between meals, work, personal projects and disconnect. Last nigh...

Hey all. Now, isn't that a curiosity-raising title? The articles mentioned in the episode can be read here and here . The transcript can be read here . Like. Share. Subscribe. Notify. Tell others. Comment. cheers!! revel.

Hey! Looking for a "light" "based on real events" scandal flick to waste away an hour and a half of your Saturday or Sunday? Check out Bad Education (I still haven't set the format for movie titles....). Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney give us a kind of characture of how not to steal money from a school system, and I take advantage of the review to go on about school systems -- two in one! Transcr...

Hey listeners! That title sounds a little legal or constitutional, doesn't it? School kids have been back in the classrooms (and sent back home!) in Spain for a couple of weeks now and I go on a bit on some of the justifications given for the necessity of getting them back behind their desks (and the new plastic shields!). If you want to read it (or need to translate it to your language!) check ou...

Hey all. This one is out of left field, so not going to even give you a written clue. Just listen, and shut it off if you can't get to the end, that's all! Transcript of part of this week's episode on the blog. enjoy! revel.

Hey all. Bob Woodward's new book, " Rage ", will soon be in our hands. Its publication seems to have brought up some journalistic ethics questions that I've got an opinion about and that I share in this episode of radio revel. You can check out the transcript on the blog. Cheers, revel.

Hey gals and guys! Not sure how this one ended up turning into a diatribe on stupidity, I think maybe because I tried to describe my experiences outside of my home in exterior reality (previously known as "Old normal with mask" and currently looking for a new moniker). Since I spend so little time outside of the safe haven of my house and patio, there wasn't much to describe. And the other just sl...

Hey loyal listeners! How many of you listening remember those old-fashioned true crime magazines? I’m going to have to do a Google search to refresh my own memory of some of those pulps, hang on, those that stand out were called “True Crime”, “True Detective” and one called “True Crime Detective”. Don't do this often, but here you've got a review on a series I saw this past weekend. I enjoyed it,...

Hey friends! Drifting (as Mim Canny would have asked us to do) to a different topic, even had to make a new tag over on the blog (where I've left the transcript and links to some of those things I mention in this episode, videos and blogs). Good riddance, Kellyanne. Hope you stay out of public service for a long time, won't thank you for the service you've given this time around. Can you tell I di...

Hey all. Here's a novel idea. Going to turn boring babysitters into a new, important vocation. Trying to launch ideas that will get us out of ruts that we use as excuses for not evolving. Moving from "they have to go to school, I have to go to work, the economy needs me!" to "I can go to work because my children are safe at home with someone caring for them as they enter a new world of valid educa...

Hey all! Continuing on with the "Engage them" theme on learning from home, I look a bit at how I began engaging my own ESL students and transition to the motivations younger students have imposed upon them. You can read the transcript on the You're listening to radio revel blog. Cheers! revel.

Hey! "Are we really going to send our kids back to school? Really?" We've got to look at some of the reasons there is so much resistance to not sending our kids back to school. This episode, I segue from that distance learning design experience into the first part of one of the themes that often keeps distance learning in the "can't be done" box: student engagement. If you want to take a look at a...

Yeah. Is this just another podcast that got enthusiastically started during quarantine and now fades away with everything else we ought to have learned in March and April of this year, 2020? Nope, just started this past week a new work-from-home job that, combined with the work-from-office job, leaves me with the 24 hours nature gives me in a day pretty close on time. This one has been on the hard...

Hey listeners! Friday again, plodding on with the work from home episodes in the "It can be done" series. I'll get back to education, I promise you! Actually, sooner than we think.... This episode describes two work spaces I inhabit: the one at the workplace and the other on in my home. I figured we'd have to have a clear idea of the two physical environments in order to be able to do a pro / con...

Hey again! A new "it can be done" episode here. I take a look at the two main "authorities" that define what a workspace is, hoping that we employees are on the ball and ready to face the restrictive ways in which these authorities will probably try to write the script for future work from home platforms and practices. Though I say in the episode "9" minutes, I must have read slower this time! Tra...

Hey listeners! Thanks for tuning in again. This episode continues the chain of "work from home" reflections. It contains an anecdote that I lean on when trying to defend the fact that despite contrary beliefs, a lot of us actually do do some of our work from home without it being officially recognized as such. Also an introduction to how we can begin, on an individual basis, to get some say in the...

Hey all. Hope I didn't depress you all with the last Friday episode I posted. Plus, last Friday I played hookie and you didn't get one, so this one I'm posting just a little earlier to make up for that. This time I go on about how tourism, at least in historic European cities, can be improved upon. Just listen and you'll understand where I'm coming from. The transcript I've put up on a new (and re...

Hey all. First, want to apologize for not getting the Friday podcast up last week. Kind of a busy week, what with the day job coming out of quarantine, an interview for another podcast (I'll let you all know about that one, it was good fun!) and the vegetable garden.... I have a theme, but it'll have to wait until this Friday. This is a Cafetalk prompt post , so I didn't think of it but was able t...

Hey all. Just some random thoughts in answer to the Cafetalk prompt. This is what I'm going to do this summer. peace, revel.

Hey all. Not in the best of moods today, been back at the day job for a week, not liking what I'm seeing out there in the post-quarantine world. Yet I seem to have to go out there despite my reservations. Today some sad reflections on the filter I've been using to protect myself, and it's not the mask! peace, revel.

Hey listeners! This week, instead of replying directly to the prompt at Cafetalk, I decided to pull out this old story, written at least three decades ago, and share it with you all. The weekly theme was something about my favorite musical instrument, and that turned out to be like asking me my favorite color or my favorite type of music or my favorite novel. I'm not too good at answering that "yo...

Hey all! A Good News Friday episode today. Monuments to out-of-date, past best-used-by dates are being "targeted" in the current efforts to clean up American attitudes towards discrimination and brutality. Governmental inefficiency aside, I take a quick look at how taking down statues to heros of another era helps in the evolution of creating heroes in today's climate of unrest, sadness and anger....