Sometimes a job is more than a job.
I have been teaching at the same elementary school in West Hartford, CT, since the fall of 1999. The way that this school and its people have become intertwined in…
Friendship Application 3.0
Behold the newly-revised Friendship Application 3.0. Friendship Application 1.0 is more than five years old, and Friendship Application 2.0 is three years old, so it was time for an update.…
Cruelty is a sign of true friendship
A friend sent this to me. After some thought, I came to the conclusion that this is absolutely true in every way. My closest and best friends are the people…
My 15 dead friends (potentially)
I’m once again in the process of revising my Friendship Application. As I’ve debated new categories to add to my list and the revision of others, I’ve begun to wonder…
Unfair assumption #8: The grown men in the audience of the Glee: The 3D Concert Movie are not friendship material for me.
The grown men in the audience of the Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, who were overjoyed and in some cases genuinely euphoric over performance taking place on stage, are not…
The Friendship Application 2.0
Behold the newly-revised Friendship Application (the original one was more than two years old and in serious need of an update). There have been instances over the past year or…