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Waiting For The Osprey – Peacefully
The nest is perched high atop a pole (compliments of Monroe County) about 200 yards from my morning deck. Most mornings there is no movement and with an obtuse spotting scope I can see the beginnings of a nest of … Continue reading
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Searching for Howard Beale: The Fall of Our Discontent
*Picket lines and picket signs Don’t punish me with brutality Talk to me, so you can see Oh, what’s going on What’s going on Ya, what’s going on Wall Street: a neighborhood that handles the finances of those elusive job … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Review & response, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged champagne, college, Egypt, Fay Dunaway, gates, Greed, horizons, Howard Beale, keys, mad as hell, Network the movie, Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, protests, standoff, Wall Street, zucotti park
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Picture Paris: a Photo Essay – The Metros
Let Us Not Forget Paris My lapses in travel posts show a laziness that embarrasses and motivates me at once. However, my time between posts was not all idle; I did use it to process my experiences in Paris – … Continue reading
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Tagged artes de metiers, mapping the metro, Paris, Paris metro, Photo essay, picture paris
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What Matters Most…
I work for a NYS educational institution that, curiously, expects students to attend classes on Veterans’ Day and gives the same students Columbus Day off. Then I got this e-card which informs me just why these students need this explorer’s … Continue reading
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CONTAGION: Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood
Cinematic themes featuring a world done in by some uncontrollable force – Godzilla, meteorites, nuclear weapons and, in the case of Contagion, virus, are not new. Although, Contagion does take our collective fear of a pandemic and brings that fear … Continue reading
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Tagged Contagion, fomite, Gwennyth Paltrow, Kate Winslett, Laurance Fishburne, Matt Damon, movie review, virus
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A Diary of Change: September 12, 2001
I have a picture of the Twin Towers – they stand tall and strong in the background – behind a group of frolicking high schoolers headed for the Statue of Liberty on the ferry out of New Jersey. I looked … Continue reading
Posted in Essays: Life in These Hinterlands, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged 9/11, children and 9/11, murderous planes, New York City, NYC, Twin Towers
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The Perils of Good Wine
There is a line, a bellwether that tells a writer that what he or she has to say is worth the effort of climbing the stairs and saying it in print. That line is divined in the level of wine … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, lost youth, stairs, time, wine, writer, writing life, youth
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Classroom Confidential:
On the playgrounds of the future Children will laugh and sing And we’ll cross the bridge to real peace Where the bells of sanity’ll ring Until then we shall play the game Which will all add up to naught “It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged bootstraps, Classroom, congress, educaiton, school district, teachers lament, testing
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Tools of Our Time
I’ve just read Tera W. Hunter’s New York Time’s piece, Putting an Antebellum Myth to Rest (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/opinion/putting-an-antebellum-myth-about-slave-families-to-rest.html). Dr. Hunter, a professor of African-American studies at Princeton, has been compelled to dispel the myth regurgitated by The Marriage Vow, a document … Continue reading
