Writing
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Langston Hughes: I, Too, Sing America
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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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What I really wanted to be when I grew up was a famous novelist – at least as famous as Jules Verne, and maybe even as good. Now I’m resigned to having once visited an event, probably as a seven- or eight-year-old, that was also visited by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., who was then within a…
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Walking in the woods reminds me of how I live my life.
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“Then you knew where you were.” The passing of #MichaelHerr.
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By E.E. Cummings Presented in honor of the 34th birthday of Lauren Gabrielle Rousseau I shall imagine life is not worth dying, if (and when) roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed’s a rose, roses (you feel certain) will only smile ~ Lauren’s story is so much more…
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An address from, to, for the Class of 2016 in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, by Donovan Livingston, Ed.M. ’16 – which phrasing sells way short what you will experience if you play this brief and inspiring video. [Some very brief biographical information: Mr. Livingston is a 2009 graduate of UNC Chapel Hill (BA History),…
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