be sure to celebrate van morrison’s 61st birthday tomorrow by listening to Astral Weeks … Moondance … St. Dominic’s Preview …
& then give a listen to the wacko Contractual Obligation Album …
my favorite cuts: Ring Worm … Freaky If You Got This Far … and the immortal You Say France and I’ll Whistle
the [...]
these questions have been floating through the blogs for quite a while but nobody tagged me … so i take the liberty to cheat on quite a few and name more than one title … and i’ve added a few questions of my own …
consider yrself tagged if you feel like it …
What is a [...]
the great LibraryThing was a year old yesterday … check out the book piles
Locust St. … way cool blog … (can i say that?) … most excellent organizing principle & development therof … via p-ramblings
The Five-Paragraph Essay …
i’m reading the first batch of ap in-class essays
apply to one of my pomes the questions posed by teacher dawn hogue in What is a poem made of?
is it possible or desirable to do this with pomes of my ilk?
are there other questions that might be posed for pomes of my ilk?
does the degree of resistance to these questions by my [...]
MemoryArchive … wikis are cool … (via carla beard’s great Web English Teacher)
check out paula’s pictures … & be sure to click them so you get a bigger view
well … there’s “my” garden out the window past the kitchen sink … and in it there’s a young rabbit nibbling the decorative weeds … two goldfinches feasting on the late august coneflower (no longer gorgeous, but useful) … two small white butterflies (moths?) in the lavender in the nasturtiums … three brown doves pecking [...]
the ap classses had some worthy discussion of a wendell berry essay … “Men and Women in Search of Common Ground” …
But we need a broader concept yet, for a marriage involves more than just the bodies and minds of a man and a woman. It involves locality, human circumstance, and duration. There is a [...]
me … today … many years ago …
with profound gratitude toward all who were/are involved in the production and continual maintenance of …
me
had an eventful weekend just past … travelled down to petersburg to visit with family & celebrate a few birthdays … found myself with a sudden big whopping pain on sunday morning & my sister meg drove me … most quickly, i’m told … in … to springfield & the e.r. … where after two [...]
this was pretty good … we had the first run-through of the school day … but it wasn’t regular because we ran a B schedule for the back-to-school mass …
what had to happen happened … no crises … but i felt a little distant … like i was talking to them (my students) from inside [...]
i mentioned the monstrous appearance of the front page of my site, brtom.org, over on the school computers … so … i tweaked the page a bit & got it down to 780 px width …
today the tech guy tried to adjust my school computer’s monitor display … but he still couldn’t get the whole [...]
