Cosette Sullenberger is an 8th grader at Bellevue Middle School. She was kind enough to write down her thoughts and reflections on a school year that abruptly ended this Spring. It was my intention to share this on Tuesday, but… Read More ›
Education
FREE YOUR MIND, SO YOUR ASS WILL FOLLOW
“If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you’d never fall in love.” ― Timothy Leary “If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution.” ― Emma Goldman Over the weekend I got dragged into a Twitter conversation around… Read More ›
THE CONTINUATION OF THE GREAT CURRICULUM DEBATE
“The rumours, as usual, didn’t take into account the complexity, much less the truth.” ― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women “An interesting thing about touch is that the brain doesn’t just tell you how something feels, but how it ought to… Read More ›
QUIT LOOKING FOR NEW THE NORMALCY, FOCUS ON FACING THE FUTURE.
“When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equalizer.” ― Keith Richards “That’s… Read More ›
DON’T QUIT BEFORE THE MIRACLE
“The evil we do, Monsieur, is within us; it does not come from circumstance.” ― Emmuska Orczy, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel “Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.”… Read More ›
A QUESTION OF PRIORITIES
“Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.” ― Ernest Becker “This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem… Read More ›
THE SCHWINN KING
“Don’t worry about what people think, because once it’s all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who don’t love you will, too.” ― Rick Bragg, The Prince of… Read More ›
REMIND ME AGAIN, WHAT’S THE POINT OF THIS SURVEY?
“Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves! “There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set… Read More ›
IT TIME TO STOP BUILDING THE PLANE WHILE FLYING IT
“Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God “Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants… Read More ›
PLAYING THE MOVIE FORWARD
“Jesus was a good guy, he didn’t need this shit.” ― John Prine “I don’t recognize myself. I don’t know who I am anymore.” And it’s all fun and games until someone loses an I.” ― Don Winslow, Savages … Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 