Author Archives
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Leaving
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Marian Wright Edelman Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American activist for civil rights and children’s rights. She is the… Read More ›
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Odd and Strange Christmas Specials
Christmas is my favorite holiday, Santa, giving gifts, decorations, and the all-encompassing, all-pervasive, fully comprehensive music. But like most things there are some weird things that happen around the edges of any season. Sometimes the weird gets mainstream. Halloween used… Read More ›
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Duck
If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back. Ellen Swallow Richards Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (Swallow; December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an American industrial and safety engineer, environmental… Read More ›
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Possiblity
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. Douglas Adams Douglas Noel Adams (11 March… Read More ›