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The Essence of Teaching and Learning
I remember when my eighteen month old son toddled up to me, put his little finger on my shirt button and said, “That’s a button!” His first complete sentence. Made me proud and excited. The potential. Somehow he had learned language. When I taught English to teenage outcasts, I established a complex relationship with my students and a similar interplay of teaching and learning occurred. With my students, it was more direct. It was my … Continue reading
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Tagged Diane Ravitch, Education, elementary school, Matt Damon, NCLB, No Child Left Behind, No Teacher Left Standing, Teacher, Teachers, Teaching
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At What Age
At what age do you prefer sleep to wakefulness, prefer the dream— climbing the clouds atop a faraway mountain— To the step by step slog legs too heavy to move air too thin to breathe the dream a painful reality. At what age does the body prefer the mind asleep? Share on Facebook
Romantic Musings
After all the flashes of anger and scenes of violence, all the perversion and political foolishness, the aging body limping but still climbing, the steady diet of Halloween horror movies and romantic comedies, I will settle for a cool afternoon run along the river, through the woods, and will create nothing short of my own reality so that at least for one elusive moment, I can believe in an illusory, romantic, selfless merging of spirits … Continue reading
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Middle Class Mortality
Middle Class Mortality Young man full of it, at night After a few, that was me. Did I drink… too much? Could I see… what was coming? I cycle the highway Salvation Army clothes Tattering in the wind bent wheels clacking Loose spokes, rusted fender, what happened to my Lycra shorts? I work at Wal-Mart my Phd in Philosophy I shoeshine on Wall Street loose teeth … Continue reading
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Tagged 99%, CNN, Huffington Post, News, Occupy St. Louis, Occupy Wall Street., Ostl, OWS, poetry, protest, protestors
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“Dry Fly” of the St. Louis Ozarks
There’s no “matching the hatch” when I fly-fish clear Ozark streams near St. Louis, Missouri. While I am interested in insects, bugs, and so on, I’m more interested in catching smallmouth on my fly rod. I also enjoy seeing snakes slither acorss the water’s surface. So I’m often asked the common question, “What are you using for bait?” No worms, no stinkbait, or mechanical gagets, but simply “poppers.” My first choice is a yellow popper, followed by … Continue reading
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Tagged askwritefish, bluegill, fly fishing equipment, fly fishing gear, fly fishing Missouri smallmouth, fly fishing St. Louis, Hubpages, Jeffrey Penn May, largemouth bass, Missouri streams, rock bass, smallmouth, St. Louis fly fishing, St. Louis Stream Adventures, St. Louis streams, sunfish
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The Panic and Pain of Mind-Body Dualism
In the opening scene of the classic semi-autobiographical comic novel Three Men In Boat, the writer Jerome K. Jerome is looking for a hay fever treatment when he casually begins reading about other diseases. By the time he’s finished, he concludes that he has every disease on the list. “I had walked into that reading-room a happy healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.” He goes to his doctor, an “old chum” who gives … Continue reading
Phone Home Pictures
In a previous post, I more or less marveled about how I take pictures now that I have a cell phone. Rarely took any before. These pics were taken this summer. I’ve also been reading a lot about neuroplasticity and have finally realized that I should, as all those self-help books say and I’ve scoffed at over the years, “be grateful for what you have.” So, I am grateful for where I live, in Valley … Continue reading
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Reluctant Photographer
With technology apparently comes unexpected urges. In this case, my cell phone makes it easy for me to take pictures, so of course I do. And for the first time in my many hikes over 40 years, I am stopping and taking photos of the flowers I’ve passed by… and I’m picking up a few snakes along the way, but that isn’t necessarily new. Share on Facebook
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Muddlehead
Informal typing straight into the blog site. Something new for me, as usually I rewrite and organize and work too hard to get it as perfect as I can approximate. But it isn’t about perfection, is it? It’s about success, about talking to the online void. For I am sure no one is reading this anytime soon. I’m two weeks into quitting alcohol and caffine and feel as muddled and lethargic as I imagine a … Continue reading
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