Sabbatical 2.0

Part of our sabbatical plan, in addition to volunteering and educational travel, is the completion of three courses offered through Stanford University.  The first course is America’s Poverty and Inequality Course.  It is offered through an online format, which you complete at your own pace. We have scheduled ourselves for a Monday, Wednesday, Friday format, in which we watch the lectures, complete the discussion questions and debate the information with each other.  Below, you will find the outline of one of the chapters. The individual lectures, by the experts, are engaging.  However, we have noticed that this course has, thus far, had almost no people of color presenting.  This is an interesting approach for a course on inequality offered by an elite university.  We are halfway through the course, at this time.  We look forward to the second half. We have now completed our first course. There were very few people of color or different financial status throughout the course. There we

 Well, if you are following this blog, then you should be aware that we are Phillies fans.  As it happened that our beloved Phillies made the playoffs, in the newly created final playoff spot, and then proceeded to eliminate all of their opponents, we found it important to return to our hometown for the World Series.  In truth, we were coming home anyway for November and December, but we were very happy to return to see the World Series.  I was fortunate to get a couple of tickets to the October 31st game, that was played on November 1st due to rain.  The Phils crushed them 7 - 0.  Unfortunately, the series was lost, but it was a great time to be in Philadelphia. Philadelphia Phillies vs. Houston Astros You can see the lit up Liberty Bell and the lit up face of Bridget after Bryce Harper’s home run. Below, you will see our costumes from the Halloween game that wasn’t played.  We met a lovely family from Abington, PA in the Victory Brewpub.  It’s nice to know that, while traveling the w