Today my lovely barista asked me how I was doing, and I said, “Huh… good… again.” It’s surprising. Maybe it’s that I came into a bit of money, so I’m relaxed about money. Or that my panic disorder seems to be retreating (though I hate to comment on that, and must knock on wood). Maybe […]
Read More Good Guys: Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura KościuszkoYes, I played “School’s Out” by Alice Cooper. No one needed that extra noise in the hall. Yesterday, a senior who had spent many days sleeping through class, came in to do some more work in hopes of graduating in July. I put on “Wayne’s World” and I told him it was the movie I […]
Read More The LastI have two opinions on UFOs: they are real, and they’re not. They are real in that my grandpa, the grandpa I barely knew, was a professional pilot, and he said every pilot had seen things. Every pilot had seen things, he said, and pilots know what weather balloons and satellites and reflections look like. […]
Read More SkiesOne of my students was adding blue colored pencil filling to his Thomas the Tank Engine drawing, and he said, “People used to make fun of me for liking this stuff.” “I’m sorry,” I said. “That’s not right.” It’s the end of April. The kids wanted to do their online learning thing, and I was […]
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