Here are some thoughts to toss around. I’ve gotten a few text messages from Bostonian friends, urging on the Phillies to crush the Yankees. (Forget, of course, that neither pennant has been won yet.) And, inshallah it be the case, I think the Phillies stand the best chance to do it.
The new [...]

Religion: Not Bad

While speaking with a parent on report card day, she mentioned something I had long gathered from overhearing student complaints: religion class pushes students away from religion.
I don’t teach religion.  I know very little about how religion is taught at our school.  But, from my own elementary experiences disliking Church and disliking CCD, to forsaking [...]

It doesn’t add up…

Suicides are up in Philly… but we won the World Series!

Some Kind of Salvation

Laptop! Alive! Kind of… very slow. Very sluggish. We are entertaining a period of hospice right now.  So happy to have it back.  I’m just the least bit embarrassed at what a wash the three weeks without it have been.  It’s alarming that in just 6 short months, my life became [...]

Rich Kid Blues

It figures that once I’ve organized myself enough to post a blog on something of a regular basis, a silly technical hiccup would throw me off.  What is my problem now?  I’ve tasted from the tree of laptop knowledge, only to have the slim little hand-me-down notebook fail on me.  Now, I am helpless.
When I [...]

The one time I have practical and real-life consequences at stake, and the entire game turns on a single fumble.
Whatever, Star-studded suckers.  See you at the end of 2008.

e.e. cummings

With the 24th birthday approaching, I can feel Milton’s seventh sonnet creeping over my shoulder.  It’s been driving me to read voraciously and I’ve had the fortunate pleasure to spend many pleasant afternoons by babbling brooks and in lazy swaying hammocks (a strong argument in favor of continuing a career in education) in the company [...]

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This may be something someday, like a side project or just some good old venting space, but for the time being the only reason I’m here is to work with my friend at http://dinodinodino.wordpress.com/ so if for whatever reason you came here looking for me… uh… go there.