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We need teachers. We need teachers who are not merely well-educated and kind and hard-working. We need teachers who are smarter than most of their students. My original post “WHY YOU DON’T WANT TO BECOME A TEACHER” went up on my previous blog while I was actively teaching in a public high school. I reposted…
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Forty years ago, I was climbing a seastack (don’t do this) and when I pulled myself level with the top I was eye to eye with a black bird with that brilliant enamel colored eye, staring right back at me. That was my first close view of a black oystercatcher. I have seen a few…
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A friend asked me what local schools in my area are doing this fall. So this will be a rant. Don’t read more if you don’t care to know what I think.
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Two days before his death, John Lewis submitted an Opinion piece to The New York Times that he hoped would be published on the day of his funeral. “Though I am gone, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe.” While my time here…
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We see the gulls and lately pelicans fishing low over the surf each day. This morning we saw a solitary Canada goose. It is not the first time. There was a goose that hung about Asbury Creek a few years ago. It was there for weeks in the late summer and we hope it eventually…
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Two months ago I wrote here about beauty and about the storks nesting in England for the first time in a hundred years. It seems a long time ago. Yesterday, for the first time in over four months, I ate a meal I had not myself cooked. It was a risk and we will not…
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How do you stop the hurt of having to breathe? —Toi Derricotte from The Telly Poems “His father would say, ‘You are not good for your own sake. That probably isn’t even possible. You are good as a courtesy to everyone around you. Keeping a promise or breaking it, telling the truth or lying—these things…
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