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Very white interns

Behold! The assemblage of current interns for the Trump administration, compared to the assemblage of interns from President Obama’s last year in office. Notice any difference? I understand that it’s hard to identify race by skin color in an image like this, but as far as I can tell, there is one man and possibly…

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Bricks serving as reminders of all I have lost

Yesterday was the last day of the 2019-2020 school year. For the last 21 years, I have been teaching at Wolcott School in West Hartford, CT. For more than two decades, I have celebrated the last day of the school year and first moments of summer vacation with my students. Yesterday’s celebration was decidedly different.…

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The school year never ends

It’s the last day of the school year for me. The strangest last day of school in my 21 years of teaching. I just recorded and sent off my last morning meeting video to my students. I populated our online classroom with the reading and videos required for the day. I posted a daily attendance…

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Amateur fireworks displays are stupid

Perhaps you’ve heard that the use of fireworks is on the rise in our country. For a variety of reasons, some related to the pandemic and some related to the civil rights protests, the use of firework has increased exponentially over the past couple months. Elysha and I have heard fireworks going off late into…

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Cat in a box

Cats are nothing like dogs.   Call a dog’s name, and more often than not, that dog will come running. Dogs can be trained to sit, lie down, roll over, and generally respond to human commands.   Dogs aim to please.   Dogs understand that in exchange for a rent-free existence, they are willing to…

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Bigots being bigots

In case you missed it, because bigoted cowards often conduct their bigotry on the weekend when fewer people are paying attention, the Trump administration made two decisions on Friday night regarding the LGBTQ community: Trump rejected requests from U.S. embassies to fly the rainbow pride flag on embassy flagpoles during June, LGBTQ Pride Month. No…

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Murder Noodle

When our plans to travel to the west coast and Niagara Falls this summer were scrapped thanks to the coronavirus, Elysha and I invested some of our travel budget into backyard games, thinking we’d be spending a lot of time at home. Ladder ball Cornhole Sprinklers Frisbees Soccer balls We’ve also added a hammock and…

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Thoughts on Eric Clapton’s music

Somehow, as we were eating dinner on the front lawn last night, Elysha Dicks and I got to talking about Eric Clapton.   Clapton is a fine musician and songwriter. Elysha probably likes him more than me, but I enjoy many of his songs.   But we all must acknowledge that “Cocaine” is a terrible…

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Latest mystery

Cleaning up last night, I found this on the table. Kind of aggressive. Don’t you think? Do not touch it. Do not look at it. And maybe don’t put it back on the shelf? Or definitely pt it back on the shelf? It’s hard to tell. Not the best sentence ever written in terms of…

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School of Rock if it was 1988

Elysha and I were watching the last 30 minutes of School of Rock last night. I’ve seen the movie before, and I had planned to watching something else, but when you land on the last 30 minutes of School of Rock, how do you not watch? When the movie ended, I wondered: How many of…

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