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“Better to be on meds than dead.” The psychiatrist was talking about a mutual friend she believed was being improperly medicated. He was depressed and not feeling “right” on his medication, but the alternative was not to be considered. Without medication he was suicidal. The Lancet has published a review of research concerning antidepressants, a meta-analysis,…
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From yesterday’s The New York Times “11 of the Most Dramatic Moments in a Day of Confrontation Over Guns”: ‘What is your definition of a well-regulated militia?’ At an intense town hall-style meeting Wednesday night, Diane Wolk Rogers, a history teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., confronted a spokeswoman for the National Rifle…
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I know there will be trouble as soon as they begin handing out three-ring binders. I was a public school teacher for twenty-five years and as every new wave of pedagogy sweeps down from above, there is always a white three-ring binder. If I had not released them back into the wild, I would have…
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This morning on the news was a story about bullet proof backpacks. What children will be wearing this next fall? Publisher’s Lunch is an industry publication that sends out a daily condensed report for free. Right at the top is an overview of recent sales of manuscripts, categorized by genre and target audience. This morning, under…
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The Russian Are Coming, the Russian Are Coming. And these are not the nice ones from that movie who only wanted to return home safely. These Russians had an agenda, false identities, and they saw success. The Russians were here, not only on Facebook and posting lunatic comments almost like Americans, but in person, on…
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First, I turned off email alerts a few years ago. Then I limited my visits to once a day, then to only a couple times in a week. I tried deactivating my account and found that it spontaneously reactivated because of my use of other websites. It is time to bite the bullet. With some…
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Florida student Emma Gonzalez to lawmakers and gun advocates: ‘We call BS’ CNN Staff Updated 5:38 PM ET, Sat February 17, 2018 (CNN)Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, addressed a gun control rally on Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, days after a gunman entered her school in nearby Parkland and killed…
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If 17 children hadn’t been shot and killed three days ago, I might not have disliked Black Panther so much that I had to stand and walk to the back of the theater. Explosions, chase scenes, and brutal battles with black men killing other black men with the underlying thesis of absolute honor and inherited…
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As a teacher in public and private schools for over 40 years, I have never been injured by a student, but among other incidents, students have yelled and sworn at me thrown a chair at the wall thrown a heavy metal padlock at me (it missed) drawn a penis on a classroom poster written about…
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Every morning, my husband and I walk the shore. We usually head north toward Asbury Creek, or what even-now-I-am-not-certain might be Shark Creek. I have a map from decades ago and those creeks flow in other places. So we walk north. We almost never go out in rain, but we can see the rain shadow…
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