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84Fly-fishing
I have been fly-fishing now for several years, and because I am also an Ethics teacher by trade, I couldn’t help but put the two together and consider the ethics of fly-fishing. When considering an ethical question, it is often useful to drag...
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79A Teacher's solutions for America's School Problems
Perhaps the following thoughts will provoke a conversation about schools in America. I went to public schools and a state university for my own schooling. I have taught in a university school of education, a public high school, a community college...
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77The benefits & advantages of single sex schools
Here are few paragraphs on what I’ve learned about girls’ schools after having taught in two for a total of eighteen years. The first was a Roman Catholic day school in the Midwest, and I am currently teaching in an east coast boarding/day...
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77Magdalena River Fishing Memoir
One of my favorite memories as a child was fishing on a tributary of the Magdalena River in Colombia, South America. The Magdalena is the primary river that flows from the south of Colombia and the Amazon to the coast near Barranquilla. The stream...
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75Rev. Jim Jones and the People's Temple: A Memoir
The day I met the infamous Rev. Jim Jones, he was wearing semi-opaque sunglasses and a black shirt, and he was being trailed by a half dozen or so teen-aged young men. They piled out of a wine-colored van that...
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74Momones: a fruit memoir
Some fruits are worth climbing trees to enjoy. A fruit from my childhood that is not widely known in the United States but is considered a delicacy in the tropical regions of Colombia and Venezuela are called momones. Momones grow in clusters on...
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74My Four Fights
One day, on the playground during physical education class, we were running relay races. We were divided into two teams in lines at both ends of the asphalt basketball court. The game was simple: each of us in turn was to run to other end of the...
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71Emily Dickinson: A Certain Slant of Light: Essay
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes-- Heavenly Hurt, it gives us-- We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are-- None may teach it--Any-- ...
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71Book Review: Almost Moon: Alice Sebold
First let me introduce myself. I currently teach American Literature, Ethics, World Religions and Social & Political Philosophy at a prep school. In the past, I have taught courses at the university level. I write poetry now and then when the spirit...
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69Farmington River Brown Trout fishing
This brown trout was caught August 31st, 2007 at 4 pm in Halford's pool on the Farmington River, Connecticut on a number 18 curved, barbless hook emerger on a moderate retrieve. I typically fish with a 2...
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