“I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn’t pay off.” ― Warren Zevon “I think there’s a great beauty to having problems. That’s one of… Read More ›
Education
TEACHERS ARE SICK
“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” ― Socrates “If you’re not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?” ― Gene Wilder Today we are going… Read More ›
IT IS NOT LIKE YOU WEREN’T WARNED
“Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don’t speak bird.” ― Kurt Cobain “Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may… Read More ›
UNCHAINED OR UNHINGED…OR DO WE EVEN KNOW THE DIFFERENCE?
“As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.” ― Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith I distrust those people who… Read More ›
TONY SOPRANO VISITS TENNESSEE LEGISLATORS
“You don’t accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.” ― Kinky Friedman “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ―… Read More ›
MY OP-ED FOR THE TENNESSEAN
During his campaign for re-election in 1967, Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley said, “I believe in progress and a good school system is essential to progress. I also believe, as I have demonstrated over my last three years as mayor, that… Read More ›
COME ON FEEL THE NOISE
“There is something about people who wake up at the dawn of their career and say I’m going to work with children all day, every day, that somehow, sometimes, makes them incapable of communicating with adults.” – Will Pinkston on Nashville… Read More ›
GAME OF THRONES PLAYS OUT LOCALLY
“The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends,” Ser Jorah told her. “It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left… Read More ›
A NEW DAY DAWNING
“Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” ― Winston S. Churchill “After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.” ― Cherie Currie, Neon Angel: A Memoir… Read More ›
A THREAD OF MISOGYNY
“People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.” ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins “What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.” ― Angela Davis Three days ago Metro Nashville School’s made… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 