On Diane and Mission Hill
Dear Diane,
I shall miss writing to you—but count on me to respond often to your blogs. And thanks for giving me the idea to do something similar—but not at your rate. That's another amazing thing about you. Of many.
But Mary-Ellen, our editor, is looking around for a possible ornery correspondent who might disagree with me on enough stuff to be interesting to all of you and both of us. We might take it month by month ... or, we'll see.
Meanwhile, I finally went back to see Mission Hill last week. Fearfully. First and foremost, the students and staff (and even the parents I met)think the new space is "awesome," "wonderful," like a private school." (Eek!) It will take me a little longer to agree with them. I am, first of all, a creature of habit. I wasn't an innovator, but stubbornly just trying to put into practice what I liked best about my own upbringing and schooling. My idea of "traditional" was the independent school one I went to 70 years ago, and at that time it was probably a half-
I shall miss writing to you—but count on me to respond often to your blogs. And thanks for giving me the idea to do something similar—but not at your rate. That's another amazing thing about you. Of many.
But Mary-Ellen, our editor, is looking around for a possible ornery correspondent who might disagree with me on enough stuff to be interesting to all of you and both of us. We might take it month by month ... or, we'll see.
Meanwhile, I finally went back to see Mission Hill last week. Fearfully. First and foremost, the students and staff (and even the parents I met)think the new space is "awesome," "wonderful," like a private school." (Eek!) It will take me a little longer to agree with them. I am, first of all, a creature of habit. I wasn't an innovator, but stubbornly just trying to put into practice what I liked best about my own upbringing and schooling. My idea of "traditional" was the independent school one I went to 70 years ago, and at that time it was probably a half-