that are the remains of an exoskeleton after insects, crustaceans and arachnids have molted. Part of the Open Passage 2025 exhibition, of graduates of the Bachelor of Visual and Media Arts program at UQAM. (Galerie de la Université du Québec...
The next day, the air force dispatched Frank to Texas for training, and I took another apartment in Berkeley with my mother and her children. But it wasn’t for long. Later that year Frank was reassigned to Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, D.C., and sent for me to join him...
Free Essay: “My Retirement Speech” Growing up, I always lived by the quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Every artist was an ametuar at first”. So I sit back...
I am thinking of going the medishare route after taking ACA in part of 2016 and dropping it in 2017. The cheapest ACA went for me from $272 in 2016 to $402 in 2017 and will be $566 in 2018 so that’s out of the question. But the penalty for me would be about $1,000 and I...
The Kyle Rittenhouse trial (and the increasing seeming likelihood he will be acquitted of murder), the trial of Armad Aubery’s killers, the resurgent GOP, the increasing refusal of the Senate to pass voters’ rights legislation, the abortion ban in Texas — and the Supreme Court’s reaction...
I sometimes think that the people who raise this think the process happened something like this: Jesus dies/disappears/goes away, or whatever, and the disciples go back to fishing, tax collecting, etc. Fifty years later some of them start thinking, “Gee, my retirement portfolio isn’t doing...
In June, we traveled to Bank of America’s campus in Plano, Texas, to meet our counterparts throughout the nation. Scores of nonprofit leaders who most likely would never meet, were able to share challenges and opportunities. What an incredible investment in the nonprofit community. To say ...
As a veteran teacher of forty years in the classroom, let me be clear, teachers are not completely at fault for becoming irrelevant in their profession. It results from a system that doesn’t prioritize Professional Development for its teachers. It is a system developed in the eighteenth centur...
Take the recent measles outbreak in Texas. As of the writing of this, the outbreak has grown to over 250 cases and 2 deaths. Measles cases across the US have already surpassed the number of cases for all of 2024. Vaccination rates for children in the US seem stuck at the 90% range an...
Joan (Disgruntled woman that looked of retirement age and wore a tired facial expression): “I don’t want to read tonight. In fact, I might never read here again after last time.” Becky (Slightly snappy, losing patience): “This isn’t about reading. Do you want to introduce yourself...