You may be wondering, what sort of people will review the current online forum or come to this class? I hope to be able to answer this class after we journey through Wonderland with a fresh approach. We will at least find out what the Cheshire Cat advised Alice on that question. These books have fascinated me throughout my life, and I find them even more fascinating as a senior aged adult
Category: Lifelong Learning
My Adventures with Alice in Wonderland
The real and the fantasy Alice of Wonderland were educated in traditional upper-class 19th-century schools and taught to think using Victorian values and logic. Fantasy Alice is bored with the everyday sameness of this life and wants to experience something different. Though I am at a far later stage, I understand the necessity of wanting a change as I go through a new and uncharted life stage.
Planning the 2nd Half of My Life with Falling Upward by Richard Rohr
In this reflection, I consider the effects that Falling Upward (2011) had on me after I first read it in 2014. In this book by Franciscan monk Richard Rohr, comments on
Cliff Edwards, Beloved Founder of the VCU Religious Studies Program Retired After 47 Years
Author: Brian McNeill, of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Public Affairs Department. Original web publication date: 7/20/2020 When I saw a notice that the “Beloved” Dr. Cliff Edwards was
Dancing to the Tune of The Universe: The Power of Mythology
I have been trying to figure out why people have such a hard time understanding the meaning of Mythology, and even have a more difficult time studying this topic objectively.
Tom Sawyer Revisited: Reading the Book as a Child and as an Adult
On April 11, 2017, I will begin leading a discussion class on Mark Twain’s, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at the OSHER Institute on the University of Richmond campus. I will
Reading Tom Sawyer as a Child and as an Adult
It has been almost 60 years since my fifth-grade teacher read Mark Twain’s, The Prince and the Pauper, and Tom Sawyer, to our class for the last 15 minutes
