Sitting across the table from you, Sir/Madam— I see you are the chosen one hiding the draw key. I say, my how young you look, younger than expected, perhaps. You say, ‘just enough’ and your blue breath spirals between us like confetti. Poof! A spell is cast and we are left dazed. Follow me just, […]
What motivates educators? This is not just about merit pay. This is about seriously thinking about why people follow or allow governments, corporations, and/or institutions of power to move ahead agendas that are fundamentally against education. Mind you, I can replace the word “education,” in this sentence with any term that refers to […]
Excerpt from Losing the Middle: Essays & Ramblings from the Disappearing Middle Class Iwalk to a small lake to drop in some money. The change in my pocket is my offering to the universe. If I were a Cuban priestess in training, I would have cut up a rooster with a meat cleaver and […]
Simple Lessons from Orwell’s 1984 to James Holmes 2012 The other day I was cleaning out my books trying to get rid of some, put them in a large cardboard box that I’d drag over to the thrift store. It wasn’t easy. I even worked to get my son and daughter to clear out their […]
Local to Global & Global to Local: A Spotlight on Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary General and Emergency Relief Coordinator (OCHA) “The era when the international humanitarian system was dominated by a few countries and a few agencies from the West is over. The richest countries as we can see, are struggling with a long and persistent economic crisis and […]
“But I wasn’t sure that I considered myself a Latino writer, though not because I didn’t think of myself as “qualifying” as one. I was undecided about the term “Latino writers” – indeed, about all such plural designations when applied to work as solitary and individual as fiction writing—words seeming to affirm an affinity with […]
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