2008 Articles

…late and soon – wrote Romantic poet William Wordsworth (who I gather enjoyed ‘laying pipe’ to his own sister [I don’t know if she was a half-sister, step-sister, or, the-real-McCoy, however]).  And I fully agree with him – a-century-and-a-half after he penned those words in his response to industrialization and the factories sprouting up in […]

I think I will get back to Jesus for my first New Year installment – but for now, I need to thank the world for letting me get this far, and, having so much fun doing it (I sure hope I can retire and collect my State Teachers’ retirement money – but this Chinese thang

And here I thought I was getting all caught up – and I’d do my Jesus #2 installment for December 28th…alas, many more pressing issues grip me than the 2000-year-old-dead-dude.  My God!  He’s basically a Mummy! Something really caught my eye in today’s beloved Times (1.3.09 [so we all know that I’m running about 2-plus

My dear friend, Brian M, was over this weekend – and while he is not a Bible-Thumper/Basher – he has a pretty strong belief that Jesus was the son-of-god.  I can’t consider myself an atheist, as any of my readers knows that I believe we are ALL god – putting itself back-together-again. But I’m sure

Yep!  It’s Pearl Harbor Day – the day that will live infamy – for some, as many-of-us know that it was no “surprise.”  But many people sleep better believing it was a surprise and that the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center was also a terrorist attack.  Hell!  These folks think that Lee Harvey

(Gack!  The surprise attack that wasn’t!) Well, I’m quite behind the ol’ 8-ball (again) – what with my day job and teaching 3 college classes – I can’t seem to get these ol’ essays onto the current date and time.  Perhaps those school holidays will afford me some reflective moments to catch up.  That’s why

Those who can, do — and those who can’t…teach.  We teachers have to hear this line innumerable times during our careers (some long — and some not-so-long).  At-any-rate – perhaps there is some merit to the saying, and-then-again, perhaps there is no merit. We in education currently suffer under the throes of NCLB (No Child

I was born in Detroit, Michigan and spent my first 12-years-of-life there (well, the first 12 years of this go around).  I came to love Lake Michigan Summers, cider mill Autumns, and, muddy Spring Times.  And though I came to hate the frigid cold of a Michigan Winter – there is something magical about Christmas

Once-upon-a-time – we stepped into a world that seemed like it was ready to take off!  Like a rocket for outer space – where no wo/man had gone before!!  I liken this sensation to crazy Mon Tennyson’s “noble knight” – where each day proffered a new, and different, adventure.             But we get stuck in

I bought a copy of Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” today – as I haven’t seen it for years, and — remember it as a wonderful treatise on the foibles and follies of humankind.  I remember the first time I saw it – it was with first wife Nancy – but it was hard not