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63Hunger Games Movie and Book Review
OK. I confess. I read the book and watched the movie. Next year I will be teaching a course in science fiction, and I had been told the book was a good candidate for my course, and it seemed like all my students were either reading the book or...
4 comments60Evaluating teachers
Having taught in a variety of schools both public and private for over twenty years, I have an informed opinion on this subject. I agree that all work requires evaluation and accountability. Teachers of all people should and do recognize this...
9 comments64Raccoon Poem
A raccoon curled up in my tool shed to die And looks at me with a glacial eye, Heavy, slab of frozen fur I sling it to the woods beyond a spur, Of granite at the edge of my yard. Next I decide to clean up a pile of sawdust With which...
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60poem: oak tree
In my back yard there is a white oak tree With a straight trunk perhaps twenty inches In diameter and twenty feet tall before Its branches multiply to the sky. We talk many a summer afternoon. We are perhaps about the same age, Sixty...
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60Book Review: Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges is a crie de coeur of a patriotic American about the state of our nation. The book is a classic effort to speak truth to power, to describe our culture and...
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65memorial meditation
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own...
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60Hunger and Poverty Lesson
I was excited: it was the first week of seminary and various activities had been planned for us by older, returning students. This was in the fall of 1970 at Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley,...
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64poem mother death
The old negatives in their worn photo-store envelop Nagged me to print them like a message From the other side. I could see they were images of ranch life In the 20s and 30s, horses, haying, wagons, cowboys and cows. That I...
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62snowy river
It has been a wonderful winter in Connecticut, if you like snow. What follows are a series of photographs that I took recently on the forested lot behind my house that is bordered on one side by the Bantam River. The snow was above my knees and it...
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61Book Review: Half the Sky by Kristof & WuDunn
Book Review: Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have written a book that is destined to do more to benefit people of the world than perhaps any book ever written. The authors (husband...
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