One lonely lemon rolled down the side of the produce pyramid. Then it leapt heroically, only to miss my shopping basket and land on the polished floor. I had parked my mart cart parallel to the row of citrus, and the lemon had fallen right down into the two-foot-wide ravine between my bumper and ...
A Time for Every Purpose: Why I Am Not Teaching This Year
This morning new and veteran teachers watch from classroom windows as school buses pull into the back parking lot or cars pull into the front. Those teachers wear eager smiles and may try to disguise the signs that they feel a little nervous, too. They offer hugs and pats on the back. They ease ...
Why We Love Rocky
I wasn't brave during the boxing matches. When the fighters would enter the ring, I'd ball up on the couch, head cocked to the side, and mouth twisted into a grimace. I'd completely shut my right eye, and leave my left eye open just a slit. Come to think of it, my face looked a lot like Rocky's at ...
Justice or Just Doing the Right Thing?
The term social justice just doesn't work. It is so overused, it's become painful on the ears and eyes. If I'm listening to a sermon, it is a trigger word for mind-wandering. If I'm reading a blog post, it merits an automatic click ... away. Most people who refer to social justice in a public ...
The Lone Stranger
When the lone stranger sitting next to me in the movie theater noisily unknotted her plastic Wal-Mart bag and pulled out a Tupperware container of leftovers, I was surprised. When she pulled out two more containers after that, I was aghast. I don't know what she was eating, I only know how it ...
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