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17.6.20

Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" Is As Relevant Today As It Was in 1955 (When It Was First Published)

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There are a few short stories I keep coming back to in my life. I first read Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find...
12.6.20

Journal & Rant: Quotation On Owning Property (And How This Aphorism Unnerves Me)

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He who has the property in the soil has the same up to the sky. Property Rights Are Not Something to Argue About With Americans     ...
8.6.20

Teaching Journal: Thinking About Tone in a High School English Language Arts Lesson

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In this post, I think about how I teach high school students the meaning of tone in a work of literature.  First Period English Class: the s...
3.6.20

Philosophy in the Classroom (Or, the Living Room): Five Resources to Get Young People Thinking About Ethics and Moral Decision Making

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As we gear up for Summertime and Summer Reading, I am thinking about FIVE ethically-minded resources to share with young people. Photo...
27.5.20

Quotation: A Proverb on Taking a Hint (And How One Word is Enough)

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In this quote post, I lay into a pithy proverb coined by a Roman dramatist about taking a hint (and when to take it). ” A word to the wise ...
13.5.20

Quotation: On the Self in Relation to the Other in Psalm 139 of the Hebrew Bible

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In this post, I talk about a passage from the Hebrew Book of Psalms that extols the self with respect to the Other. Photo by  Les Tricon...
9.5.20

Quotation: On the Process of Healing (And the Surprises of a Pandemic)

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Time is usually the best medicine — Ovid (43 B.C.E.-17 C.E.), Roman Poet In this post, I get a little personal with Ovid's quote ...