Author Archives
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Thinking Ought to Trump Believing
“Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.” ― Willard Van Orman Quine More and more we seem to begin our public discussions by staking… Read More ›
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Nothing is Permanent
“That’s why people become racists, and sexists and terrorists. Because we don’t talk, we don’t listen, because we don’t know, we live only in our own heads.” ― Deon Meyer, Blood Safari Last week was a lesson in the… Read More ›
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A New Dawn Arises
“Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.” ― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies The… Read More ›
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Just Who’s Running the Show?
“you can’t tell a single thing about a person’s true character if you both want the same thing. That’s like a dog and a cat getting along because they both want to kill the mouse.” ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The… Read More ›
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Objects in the Mirror May Be Closer Then They Appear
“Someone can decide it’s in their best interests to agree to something, but a choice is only really a choice if there’s a genuine alternative. Otherwise, it’s manipulation and it’s taking advantage.” ― Jane Harper, The Lost Man And,… Read More ›
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The Insanity of Doing the Same Things Repeatedly and Expecting Different Outcomes
“The most important part of an introduction always occurs in one’s absence.” ― Kate Zambreno, Green Girl Before we get rolling, let me apologize to Greeneville, Tennessee. Inadvertently, I misspelled the district name in last week’s blog post. As… Read More ›
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Treading Familiar Floor Boards
“Call them gooks, call them niggers, call them kikes, micks, spics, wops, or frogs, call them whatever you want as long as you call them something—anything—that removes one layer of human being from their bodies when you think of them…. Read More ›
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A Peek Below the Surface
“It’s not that you don’t understand, it’s that you don’t like it.” ― Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires The first week of school is officially in the books for Nashville schools. Still trying to wrap my head… Read More ›
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The Gift of Flight
“It doesn’t take much to make the daily round with one’s employer work smoothly. A couple of ‘yessirs’ when you know that ‘not on your life’ is the thing to say. A few expressions of doubt about things you’ve spent… Read More ›
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Sometimes Silence is the Better Course of Action
“if people begin by thinking rationally, the danger is that they may end by acting rationally also.” ― Grant Allen, The Woman Who Did Let’s get the not-directly related-to-education things off of our plate first. At first blush, they… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 