Red-lining the red ink

I am not (and never have been) teacher material. At least two generations of Americans have been spared years of awful classroom experiences because I figured that out when in college and didn’t even seriously consider getting a teaching credential.
And at that place and time, a young woman graduating with a BA in History was [...]

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A different world

I’m old, and I don’t have kids, and the world has changed so much just during my lifetime that I don’t know how to think about it sometimes.
But some things are still the same, I think. People who were growing from kids into adults, as they hurtled along that arc of the learning curve labelled adolescence often [...]

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Silly season

I’m figuring out the logistics of getting to and from my downtown office this coming Monday through Wednesday. Because as I may have mentioned a time or ten here the Democratic National Convention will be in town. Along with the media and the tens and tens of thousands of demonstrators and marchers and protesters that [...]

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