Belle was coming down for a quick/overnight visit, via Amtrak from Washington, to join MH and I and friends in celebrating my birthday at the above-mentioned art museum. She didn’t have much time in her weekend schedule, but went to the trouble to get train tickets, which I greatly a...
The teenaged talking tree, the brave wall-crawler, an African king with a seemingly impenetrable suit made to look like an anthropomorphic big cat, and a quippy, tricker-happy, 70s music-loving outlaw — all gone from one moment to the next. Those left standing were left to live with ...
Belle was coming down for a quick/overnight visit, via Amtrak from Washington, to join MH and I and friends in celebrating my birthday at the above-mentioned art museum. She didn’t have much time in her weekend schedule, but went to the trouble to get train tickets, which I greatly a...
AfterSlippery When Wetcatapulted them into the hard-rock stratosphere, Bon Jovi did what any smart, newly minted superstars would do: They replicated their breakthrough album, almost song for song, on their follow-up,New Jersey. Thunderous album opener “Lay Your Hands on Me” evokes “Let I...
Twixmasfeels both charmed and bizarre for several reasons, some if not most of which can be attributed to the simple disruption of routine, as you take a break from your regular schedule (many people travel or take vacation days; kids are out of school; some businesses close). Other reason...
You’ve heard those phrases before; you’ll hear them again. You may even believe them. But I’m gonna shove my elbow down the throat of the next person who says that within earshot ofmoiself. Because, guess what? This *is* whoweare – at least, nearly half of the voting “we.”...
“When I say radical, I mean we really are turning upside down almost every accepted piece of how we do high school right now. There’ll be relatively limited synchronous learning, essentially no cases where there’s a teacher up in front of 30 students lecturing. The students will have a...
You’ve heard those phrases before; you’ll hear them again. You may even believe them. But I’m gonna shove my elbow down the throat of the next person who says that within earshot ofmoiself. Because, guess what? This *is* whoweare – at least, nearly half of the voting “we.”...
“When I say radical, I mean we really are turning upside down almost every accepted piece of how we do high school right now. There’ll be relatively limited synchronous learning, essentially no cases where there’s a teacher up in front of 30 students lecturing. The students will have a...