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Langston Hughes: I, Too, Sing America
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It’s OK – I’ve driven a school bus before. Ninth Grade. Age 15, no license.
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That’s how family works, sometimes.
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What Ralph Waldo Emerson shares with my middle daughter.
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There are times when “learning” means leaving something behind.
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This blog is subtitled “The Wars We Wage – The Battles We Fight.” Here is some of why.
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A simple gift for your holiday …
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Walt Kelly was the author and artist behind the Pogo comic strip, which ran from 1948 to 1975 – and which blasted American behavior and attitude related to everything from littering to politics (sometimes interchangeably). Perhaps even more than this, Kelly was also known for rewriting Christmas carols.
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In my composition classes, I taught that if you are interested in thinking outside the box – if you strive to stretch or break the rules – you must first master the box. It’s my simplistic notion based on observations that some of the most innovative musicians were first classically (or at least formally)…
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