Teacher and Author
It’s that time again. Five years fly by whether you’re having fun or not. The Ohio Department of Education, my Hamilton County employer, even the app developer that enables me to find substitute jobs, they’ve all informed me it is … Continued
Buckeyes. Bearcats. Bengals. It was a great year to be a football fan in southwest Ohio. The combined record of what I came to call the Three B’s was 37 wins to 11 losses, or a .771 winning percentage. All … Continued
“Do they exist or are they spooks?” Classics professor Coleman Silk’s question is playful, casual. Its ramifications are serious, dire. He is accused of using a racial epithet about two repeat absentees he does not know are African American. Is … Continued
I get mildly annoyed when my wife scrolls through her iPhone in bed at night. There is nothing mild about it when she deigns to play audio, almost always a song-and-dance number from some local theater production. On this particular … Continued
N wasn’t at the grocery store on Sunday morning. I went in all smiles, ready to talk Bengals, especially about that interception last week when Ja’Marr Chase had his defender beat, but he looked to the end zone before the … Continued
I had a friend not so long ago who espoused a libertarian point of view. I enjoyed talking with him about politics, debating issues. His outlook was new to me. I learned a lot. Many of his ideas appealed. His … Continued
Rip Van Winkles from our remembered past, link to an unsure future; prime number of years separating us from what has been and will be. Predictable: no arcane algorithm, just layman’s addition. A city composed of those … Continued
CICADAS Ceding seclusion, They escape their dank caves of seventeen years, Scrape and dig unaided skyward, Seek the shady side of leaf or stick, Stick there upside-down all day, Squeeze achingly, red eyes wide, Discarding nymph’s husk: A sacred … Continued
My cat thanked me last night. I don’t know that’s what she did, but it sure felt like it. I can’t prove it or disproved, yet it seems more likely that she did than that she didn’t. She started the … Continued
It’s not just that both are right in this case. Both are right in every case. Even as “hard” a science as physics tells us light is both a particle and a wave. Quantum mechanics tells us electrons can be … Continued