“I don’t want fine. Fine isn’t enough. Isn’t not about the open fire or whatever other clichés you can conjure up, but yes, I want a connection. I want you to care as much as I care. I want you… Read More ›
Education
The Girl is Back in Town
“I used to think that revenge was about defending one’s honor, but it turns out that honor is just spite dressed up for Sunday.” ― Cat Sebastian, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb Seems like forever since we’ve seen… Read More ›
With Apologies to John Denver, She’s Leaving on a Jet Plane, Who Knows When She’ll Be Back Again
“I have got a daughter, whose life is already separate from mine, whose will already follows its own directions, and who has quickly corrected my woolly preconceptions of her by being something remorselessly different. She is the child of herself… Read More ›
What are We Talking About?
“It’s an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don’t want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in… Read More ›
What Happens When Nobody Answers the Call to Service?
“Ideas are interesting, but people are vastly more so.” ― Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails This has been another one of those weeks where we grapple with humanity. The fallout from the tragic… Read More ›
Wagging The Dog
“Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?” ― Max Porter, Lanny The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce released its 30th Annual Education Report on Tuesday. That’s thirty years, of the chamber releasing a report… Read More ›
The Year is Off to a Banner Start, Tennessee Style
“The fool’s crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man’s crime is the crime that is not found out.” ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White The silly season is upon us. Coming out of… Read More ›
A Man, and a Woman, Out Of Time
“Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.” —George Carlin I got a… Read More ›
Here We Go Again
“She stared at the television. “Why is it that after all the bullets have bounced off Superman’s chest, he then ducks when the villain throws the empty gun at him?” ― Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier The… Read More ›
A Christmas Visit From Slatski
“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just, and when they wish to be just they are often no longer strong,” ― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 