“Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.” ― Jack Kerouac “But if you’re gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you’re gonna get eaten . . .” ― Nick Cave I had… Read More ›
Education
FLABBERGASTED
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.” ― Langston Hughes “And that’s where the whole trouble is. We’re too much alike to understand each… Read More ›
SEL, IT’S NOT JUST FOR KIDS
“Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.” ― Anton Chekhov “They probably don’t understand this, but it’s important for me to show them that their father is a man who dances – who… Read More ›
A CONVERSATION WITH MNPS’S LEADER, DR. ADRIENNE BATTLE
If you survey the district leaders of the nation’s schools, you will find the vast majority have two things in common: they are white, and they are male. MNPS’s newest leader is neither. She’s also someone who has spent nearly… Read More ›
MIND PLAYING TRICKS ON ME
“All of my words, if not well put nor well taken, are well meant.” ― Woody Guthrie “Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and… Read More ›
HOW CAN WE MISS YOU IF YOU WON’T GO AWAY?
“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.” ― Thomas Hardy, The Personal Notebooks Of Thomas Hardy “Love isn’t based on gratitude. Respect isn’t based on debt.” ― Miguel Syjuco … Read More ›
BIGGER ISN’T ALWAYS BETTER
“Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.” ― Eugene Gladstone O’Neill “Giants are not what we think they are…. Read More ›
SOME SUMMER MAGIC
“We watched our friends grow up together And we saw them as they fell Some of them fell into Heaven Some of them fell into Hell” ― Shane MacGowan, Poguetry “Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see… Read More ›
SUMMER DOES NOT MEAN SLOW
“He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22 “The world must be all fucked up,” he said then, “when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.” ― Gabriel… Read More ›
THE PARALLELS OF BASEBALL AND LIFE
“Have you ever thrown a ball 100 miles an hour? Everything hurts. Even your ass hurts. I see pictures of my face and say, ‘Holy shit’, but that’s the strain you feel when you throw. I had one of those… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 