Juneteenth, the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day, marks the anniversary of when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas. That happened on June 19, 1865. That was about two months after the Confederacy had surrendered a...
More About This Book Phineas Gage John Fleischman This is the gruesome, true account of an accident that happened to a railroad foreman in Vermont in 1848.A 13-pound iron rod shot through his brain. He survived but became a textbook case in brain science. More About This Book Picture Us...
Throughout December, we all head out in Amarillo, TX. to get some holiday gift shopping done. Now, things have changed a bit over the last decade or so with the ease of shopping online from home, but there are plenty of us who still like to get out and be able to take home what ...
Melee – Can’t Hold On (WHAT HAPPENED TO THESE GUYS?!?!) The Saturdays – Lose Control (!!!) Will Young – Hopes and Fears 30 Seconds to Mars – Kings and Queens (!!!) Nelly Furtado – Manos Al Aire Robbie Williams – Bodies Tammi Chynn – We Don’t Mess Katharine McPhee – ...
Learning how to be a kind person and also learning how to take yourself out of friendships that are not good for you. And then another book I read recently is Renée Watson’s Ways To Make Sunshine. That’s about a young girl, Ryan, and her family, they have moved and dealing with ...
I happened to know the answer to that question as I had read about it the previous day, so we had a bit of a chat. The following day they were also on the trip to the Temple of Poseidon, then the next day, while I was sat on the hop on hop off bus in a bit of a traffic...
I begin this letter with some hesitation, because I know you were a teacher once. Nothing I say here should be new to you. So why would I ask you to take the time to listen? It’s because I talk to teachers every day. They share their thoughts on social media, in the comments th...
This happened because routine labor is easiest for technology to shoulder. Rules can be written for work that doesn’t change, and that work can be better handled by machines. Distressingly, it’s exactly routine work that once formed the basis of the American middle class. It’s routine ...