“Every story has at least a little truth in it. Every story comes from somewhere.” ― J.J. Abrams This morning I drove to Wal-mart around 7:45 to get coffee. There is a rapid COVID-19 testing site in a building… Read More ›
Education
HMMMM…THAT’S A COINCIDENCE
“grammar in learning is like tyranny in government – confound the bitch I’ll never be her slave.” ― John Clare I’ve been doing advocacy work for a minute or two now. Unfortunately, it’s made me a little jaded. When… Read More ›
A TALE OF TWO RE-OPENINGS
“What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten.” ― Louise Gluck As fall Break for MNPS comes to a close, I can’t help but be struck by the irony of the Tennessee Titans struggling to return… Read More ›
WILL BETSY DEVOS AND THE USDOE ALLOW THE SCHWINIGANS TO CONTINUE UNABATED?
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.” ― George Eliot, Adam Bede The hits from 2020 keep right on coming. Last week it was the legendary St. Lous Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson. This week, it’s… Read More ›
A NEVER ENDING STREAM OF CONFUSION
“The good news for the Washington Federals is they do not have a quarterback controversy. The bad news is they do not have a quarterback.” ― Jeff Pearlman, Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the… Read More ›
HARD PLUS INCONVENIENT DOES NOT EQUAL INEFFECTIVE
“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” ― William Kent… Read More ›
GUTCHECK
“[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir You would think that if a politician stood in front of a room full of microphones and made… Read More ›
LET’S SEE WHAT CREDO HAS TO SAY
“Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to… Read More ›
A FIRING OFFENSE
“No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires, too.” ― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark… Read More ›
DOES IT EVER STOP?
“Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.” ― Patti Smith One might have thought that three days of posts on education practices and policies in Tennessee would suffice, they would be wrong. Today I turn away from… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 