so things will be busy with working on my novel – but i did do some reading last week – for those of you that are blogging…

“the gold standard” by coach k – duke u’s basketball coach – story of how he worked with the 2008 us olympic team to win the gold medal in china – good book – lots of lessons that are written to business people but that can also transfer to the classroom – like the fact that you have to create purposeful interactions in the room to get a class together and on the same page – things don’t just automatically fall into place

in other reading, i started the book of matthew, i read about the rise of turkey in the economist (the country is at somewhat of a crossroads in relation to europe), and i read in sports illustrated about what a wonderful pitcher cliff lee is – and then lee went and got beat by the giants – oh well…

sincerely,
maf