My Love/Hate with Boulder, Colorado Before I begin, let me apologize to two groups of people. First, to my many good friends who are residents of Boulder. I apologize in advance for taking pot shots at your quaint and happy little hippy enclave, one of the last remaining bastions of liberalism amid a current of […]
You Too Can Buy a Voice in our Democracy
You Too Can Buy a Voice in our Democracy I must admit I have grown weary of folks whining about the inefficacies of government and bemoaning their own personal inability to manifest meaningful positive change. I empathize with their perspective that making progress in government at this point seems a Sisyphean task, with the added […]
Shut the Hell Up: An English Teacher’s Guide to Overused Words
Shut the Hell Up: An English Teacher’s Guide to Overused Words This confession should come as no surprise to anyone: I have a tendency to use too many words. When I was in graduate school earning my M.A. in English, my Swiss-born professor of literary theory remarked […]
Like Lazarus, David Bowie Shall Rise From the Dead
Like Lazarus, David Bowie Shall Rise from the Dead I woke this morning to the news and didn’t want to believe it, wanted to crawl back into bed and pull the sheets over my head so that I could deny that it was true. A legend had died. An artist who transcended medium and genre […]
My Son Is a Green Bay Packers Fan
My Son is a Green Bay Packers Fan Alas, it is true. My son is a Green Bay Packers fan. Don’t ask me how it happened. I woke up one day, and like the father who finds out his kid has been addicted to crack for months, discovered the cold, hard truth. Except that we […]
Swimming in an Ocean of Plastic Crap
Swimming in an Ocean of Plastic Crap Have you checked out your post-holiday recycling bin recently? It’s overflowing like the fountain of verbal vomit spewing from the mouth of Donald Trump being asked his candid feelings on Mexican/American relations. Have you looked down the street and seen the piles of refuse that your neighbors have […]