My father was a teacher. He taught science & history. Sixth grade and fourth. I always got the impression he moved to fourth grade because the sixth graders got to be too adult. Too cynical & jaded. His kids loved him. They defended him fiercely: decades after they were in...

I've now read a lot of analysis of why John McCain picked Governor Palin as his running mate, and a lot more on how best to approach the issue. I had a blog ready to go on Friday but then withdrew it as the rush of ideas and information coming...

When President Bush was running for office, when he was on vacation before 9/11, when he was talking big afterward -- I did complain to my co-workers. I talked about what his language really meant when you took away all the things it implied and did your best not to...

I had a lot of trouble starting this blog.

One of the first things that I did was go out and look for pithy quotes. I found quite a few on education & success & failure that inspired to some extent. But, almost all of them, when I let...

Battle not with monsters, lest you become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

--Fredrich Nietzsche.

Like many of you, I am a political junkie--so I spend a lot of time on-line, and I read a lot of BS. Like...

"A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore"

--Samuel Butler

MTV & the Associated Press recently released a "landmark study" that found that almost half of all "young people" think they will be rich, but only 17% think they will be famous....