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“…the governments would revert to equality…”
My prolonged lack of new posts is the result of several newsletters, a stage production, and a mountain of student papers and exams coming into extravagant collision. Today’s post is, thank good… more →
You Knew What I Meant
"…the governments would revert to equality…"
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wrote 1 week ago: My prolonged lack of new posts is the result of several newsletters, a stage production, and a mount … more →
"He went to Amsterdam, in the Neverlands."
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wrote 1 month ago: I post this in celebration of my dear friend David Chacko (also a fine writer, by the way! check him … more →
"With the research of the history I will know about the other countries and how they were before I got there."
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wrote 1 month ago: This is another student who believes that most of what we know of life began more or less with his b … more →
"Many people who either live or do not live in the Bronx believe…"
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wrote 2 months ago: Do we even care what they believe, this particular population? I don’t remember, anyway. I wro … more →
"If everyone works together, change may be able to come."
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wrote 3 months ago: I’ve written before about the world of students, where agency is either up for grabs or strang … more →
"Women in general always make things an issue…"
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wrote 3 months ago: You can feel it coming, can’t you? A student sentence that begins “Women…” never b … more →
"As a parent he clearly does not want to watch his son dig his own grave."
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wrote 3 months ago: Well, this is figurative language, or ought to be. Someone knowingly behaving badly, making unhealth … more →
"Last month a man turned himself into a fire station…"
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wrote 4 months ago: This seems like a practical kind of man to have around town, although he didn’t start out all … more →
"Most kids want to immolate their role model."
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wrote 4 months ago: Would mentioning Lance Armstrong in this context be a cheap shot? I don’t think it’s a t … more →
"I use too many contraptions in my writing."
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wrote 4 months ago: Be not too quick to say “typo” to this one! A typo it may be, but the typist would have … more →
"One must go through the Despond of Slough."
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wrote 4 months ago: My student is writing about John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, the story that has provide … more →
"He was not a cereal killer."
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wrote 7 months ago: I’m sure many of us who teach writing have seen this error, but it never ceases to amuse me. M … more →
"They proceed to walk down the hill to a grassy null or open space."
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wrote 7 months ago: The “they” here is the procession with the Paul bearers. The procession is “procee … more →
"Next in the procession are four Paul bearers carrying a coffin."
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wrote 7 months ago: I do hope Paul was in the coffin. What will my student do when someday he’s asked to be a pall … more →
"The media has influenced politics over the last 45 years."
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wrote 7 months ago: More history, courtesy of my students. First of all, yes, I am so old that I still consider the word … more →
"Birth is one of the greatest gifts we receive in life."
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wrote 8 months ago: I suppose this could pass muster for those who place the beginning of life at conception—or, in the … more →
"Since the time of Jesus, when the only two known religions were Christianity and Judaism…"
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wrote 8 months ago: Here’s another student’s compulsive history sketch-in. Why do they insist on doing this? … more →
"Whether the inhabitants of a mausoleum are living or dead, the property should be respected."
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wrote 9 months ago: Now, I have a friend and colleague who as an impoverished boy in Egypt did in fact live in a mausole … more →
"He had the island of Cyprus in the tight grasp of his wrist…"
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wrote 10 months ago: How, oh how, to express the magnificence and power of Othello before Iago undermined it all and brou … more →
