Expect an eclectic range of subjects here. I’m a public school teacher with an MFA in poetry living in the gritty end of the “Happy Valley.” 🎾⚽️🥾🍎🍺🗽✏️
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12 Jun 2021
I built a lamp for 3 am, for when it’s raining and the year of COVID schooling is almost done. 1/
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18 Dec 2023
A quarter of the U.S.'s roughly 30,000 United Methodist churches — which once dominated the country's religious landscape — have left the denomination, according to the church's news agency. At issue is the question of ordaining and marrying LGBTQ people. nyti.ms/41rbqRC
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20 Oct 2023
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
— Hannah Arendt
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5 Oct 2023
Florida is now the book-banning state.
4 Oct 2023
🚨 NEW: 24 Bestselling Authors with Billions of Readers Are Banding Together To Fight Book Bans in Florida and Nationwide.
"Unprecedented Mobilization" Includes @TheAmandaGorman @Connellybooks @judyblume @davidbaldacci @jodipicoult: pen.org/press-release/bestse… #BannedBooksWeek
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24 Sep 2023
I feel like I’m hanging on at X out of inertia. Other people are leaving. But I haven’t left yet.
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14 Sep 2023
“My anti-phonics perspective took root in 1991, when I wrote my first feature story as an intern for the Greenfield Recorder in Massachusetts.” 🤔 kappanonline.org/ghezzi-russ…
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26 Aug 2023
"It's the shape of the world all around you that causes your blues. And your blues is caused by some things you want and can't have."
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24 Aug 2023
This doesn’t sound good.
24 Aug 2023
These 5 powerful groups are trying to end sex ed in schools, and they’re winning
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23 Aug 2023
“He says nobody understands how he feels / but that don’t pay those monthly bills” — Bottle Rockets, “Welfare Music” youtu.be/TMqQ5s4lTPQ?si=lQFt…
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20 Aug 2023
Today, we took it down.
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20 Aug 2023
I’ve been listening to @ClintSmithIII’s book, How The Word Is Passed, on audiobook. It’s quite sobering. I’m now in the chapter on Blandford Cemetery, where he is talking about the Lost Cause mythology and its deliberate obsfucation of American history. clintsmithiii.com/how-the-wo…
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19 Aug 2023
I keep thinking of this, how Shaara frames the conflict through description of the armies — the pluralist north v. the homogeneous south. #Gettysburg #KillerAngels
14 Jul 2023
Michael Shaara describing the Army of the Potomac in Killer Angels: “…ever slow to move, turns north at last to begin the great pursuit which will end at Gettysburg. It is a strange new kind of army, a polyglot mass of vastly dissimilar men, fighting for union.” 1/
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19 Aug 2023
Who is the audience for this hat? (It’s a question I’m asking myself.)
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18 Aug 2023
This all day: "History without discomfort is propaganda." [via @ned@mstdn.ca]
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15 Aug 2023
Agreed.
14 Aug 2023
It would be extremely bad if loneliness became a right-coded concern. The empirical evidence for its pervasiveness is overwhelming and it is imperative not to concede the terrain to the incel story about how men just can't get laid these days.
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12 Aug 2023
Watergate, p. 559, Nixon’s 1974 New Year’s Note: “Fight because if I am forced to resign, the press will become too much of a dominant force in the nation” and “act like a President, act like a winner. Opponents are destroyers, haters.”
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9 Aug 2023
In @vermontgmg’s Watergate, p. 376, a recurring tennis match between Woodward and Sy Hersh at the Arlington Y. Makes me think of @postpost_its and @dellsystem’s audio installation on Wallace v. Amis. 🎾📝📕
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9 Aug 2023
We enjoyed exploring Toronto like this.
9 Aug 2023
Exploring a new city can be a joyful experience. Moving forward without a plan. Wandering on foot or going where the bus goes. Discovering secrets and local favorites. But to do this, we need human-movement transportation. bit.ly/3OIJDr9
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