Professor Carol 
I try to imagine growing up in Vienna. In fact, I’m penning these words perched on a bench in Marie Theresien Platz, a glorious square that unites Vienna’s huge Natural History Museum with its equally large Old-Masters’ Art Museum. Both of these buildings stand directly … Read more
I am the homework-enforcer in our family, partly by default, but largely because homework is a topic I get worked up about. Don’t get me wrong: I am not an advocate of homework, especially for younger children who are exhausted by a full school day. … Read more
My desktop is a mess. “Desktop” once meant the top of one’s writing table. Surprisingly, that surface in my office isn’t messy. My laptop’s desktop is the problem. (It’s hard to say those two words together.) Whenever I am at a conference or setting up … Read more
Today, waking up in Zagreb, Croatia, I thought about the people arriving tomorrow for a tour through Croatia and Slovenia. Most of them are embarking on the same trek I made yesterday, gathering last-minute items, tugging suitcases closed, and getting to the airport to fly … Read more
Piddling about online, I came across this announcement: The Roanoke County Public Schools is currently seeking applicants for a Latin Teacher for the 2023-24 school year. In my day, Roanoke, Virginia boasted a half-dozen middle and high school Latin teachers spread across the school system. The two who touched my life had … Read more
Last week’s story of Swiss lettuce apparently hit a chord. Not only the comments, but individual emails to me stated lovely things, including your own adventures in international grocery stores. Someone asked, did I intend to write about tomatoes next? Alas, my only tomato story … Read more
Last Friday morning I stood before a very large group of exuberant teachers to tout the priceless value of folk songs. I had been invited to give the keynote address to the Phoenix-area network of Great Hearts Classical Schools. This one-day symposium was serving as … Read more
It has been a tough week at Professor Carol. We were in Germany when sudden malfunctions hit our website: error messages, odd formatting, and the like. And then the site went completely down at several points. The problem was simple to describe. It dominates the … Read more
