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66Apple Poem
Teacher’s Apple Around the old wooden cafeteria tables, Reassembled and sanded for seminar use, We sit together to sort through the world, Such as it is, with an old man’s broken wisdom...
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73The benefits of single sex schools
Here are few paragraphs on what I’ve learned about girls’ schools after having taught in two for a total of thirteen years. The first was a Roman Catholic day school in the Midwest, and I am currently...
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63Voted Best U Tube Music
This song is more worthwhile than anything I've seen on American Idol by a long shot. Here are three versions in order of production. I think I like the first two the best. I like this song because of its...
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67poem sacrifice
On my walk to the river, I happen to look up from the path To a small rotten tree that had died prematurely; Lying on top of the stump, at eye level, Is a dead mangled mouse, clearly I see...
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62misty of chincoteague
This is the real, actual stuffed Misty of Chincoteague and her daughter, following those are real live ponies on the island and finally are three shots of the island from the mainland, one on a sunny day and...
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84Rev. Jim Jones and the People's Temple: A Memoir
The day I met the infamous Rev. Jim Jones, he was wearing semi-opaque sunglasses and a black shirt, and he was being trailed by a half dozen or so teen-aged young men. They piled out of a wine-colored van...
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64BBC video: Friedrich Nietzsche
I had a professor who said Nietzsche was "among the angels." Many count him among the devils for his attack on Christianity. Nietzsche was faithful to the earth and to life. He detested those who would...
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77Fly-fishing
I have been fly-fishing now for several years, and because I am also an Ethics teacher by trade, I couldn’t help but put the two together and consider the ethics of fly-fishing. When...
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71My three guns
This is one for my friends in the national rifle association and any similar romantic gun nuts. My Three Guns I have owned three guns in my day. The first was a Crossman pellet gun passed down...
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66poem spring rain
During the spring rains,Between showers,I risk a walk to the river,Past the decaying log pile,On a copper carpetOf pine needles,Down the hill and betweenTwo large Eastern white pines,One living, one dead.I...
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