Author Archives
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EDUCATION MALPRACTICE?
50, there is a new warmth and mellowing. Friends become more important than ever, but so does privacy. Since it is so often proclaimed by people past midlife, the motto of this stage might be “No more bullshit. Gail Sheehy, Passages:… Read More ›
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HOW MANY ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRIFICE
Your eyes seek conclusion in all this confusion of mine Though you and I both know it’s only the warm glow of wine That’s got you to feeling this way But I don’t care, I want you to stay And… Read More ›
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DISAPPOINTED BUT STILL SUPPORTIVE.
“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.” ― Immanuel Kant “Grant stood by me when I was crazy,… Read More ›
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CHANGE IS AFOOT WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT
“We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies.” Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks, in plea he couldn’t abandon an untenable position.” ― Shelby Foote, The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort… Read More ›
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ROUND 3 IS NOW UNDERWAY
“I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.” ― Bram Stoker, Dracula “If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a… Read More ›
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WHEN LIFE EMULATES AN ICEBREAKER
“We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.” ― John Wesley “Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it… Read More ›
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TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet “Where’s jazz going? I don’t know. Maybe it’s… Read More ›
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RUNAWAY TRUCK AHEAD
“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.” ― Winston S. Churchill “A Native American elder once described his own… Read More ›
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IN THE WORDS OF DOLLY PARTON, HERE YOU COME AGAIN…
“What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?” ― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas “Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick… Read More ›
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POLITICAL ROPE-A-DOPE
“Honest people don’t hide their deeds.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights “Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long goodbyes, my present an empty flask, the… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 