Richard C. Adams

I have been a high school teacher in a small rural Oregon school for the last 46 years. I'm now teaching the grandchildren of my earliest students. Besides, writing seven books, I was formerly a science editor for "The Computing Teacher" magazine, and have published around 40 articles, mostly on computers in schools but also climate change and movement of barbarians of the Roman empire. For the last ten years, I've been running a daily blog of what happened on this day in history and how it changed the world, and new things in science.

It is sent out EVERY school day around 8:45 a.m. (Pacific Time) to about 450 e-mail addresses, along with the high school morning announcements. Around 300 of those addresses are parents of students in the school district, but the rest are just people who want to learn something new every day. You can see an archive, updated daily, at http://blogs.pleasanthill.k12.or.us/radams/

My first book (1972) was "Misiones de California en Caligrafia" -- a history of the California Missions handwritten by me entirely in a 16th century calligraphic font that was popular in the 1600s, used on all papal documents after 1600. It was a very limited edition of 112 copies, but they occasionally come up on Amazon.com for sale. I am married and have two "children" (in their late 30s now) and one grandchild. I live in Eugene, Oregon and Florence, Oregon, depending on the season. In the 1980s, I was chosen one of the top three science teachers in the state of Oregon.

You live and learn . . . .or you don't live long.