Feets

My first year teaching, someone bought and delivered chairs, rugs, bookcases, and blinds to my public school classroom. What began as the set for a cut-rate Soviet public service announcement began to look more like a pleasant learning environment. Books by the dozens also appeared, the most popular of which is definitely Parenthood by Bill Cosby (it reads well in 30-minute bursts), and then Do Fish Drink Water? , which I haven’t read, so I don’t know if they do.

Scrooged

“I never used to be this cold, and I don’t want to think these things about people, but everybody I see is just the dregs of society.” It’s a holiday party, and someone is worried about what his job has done to him. He continued, “Like, these people will sit and watch television and I’ll […]

The Hours

If you are no longer in high school (lucky you), hear some harp arpeggios and send yourself back there…. The hour of the day that you had a class makes all the difference. You got your most hated class right after lunch? Great time for a nap. Your best class first? Bummer: you’re still half […]

Splitting Hairs

This week I was reading about the Arian controversy. These nuts in the 4th century spent years and years trying to firmly ascertain whether Jesus, the sorta founder of their religion, was a human or a God or a Godlike thing. The cutest part of the debate was the way the poor Holy Spirit was […]