Please Tell Me Again About Your Second Home I love living in a resort town. Sure, there are exasperating moments being inundated with the ignorant and frustrating behavioural choices of the visitors that some of my friends have come to calling “tourons”. They come here and ride on the wrong side of the rec path […]
High Dives and Lawn Darts When I was a kid growing up in Canton, Connecticut, the Mill Pond town pool installed a high dive during the summer of 1978. It was awesome. For one glorious summer, we would climb the heights of the 10’ ladder and plummet recklessly into the depths of the awaiting waters […]
Saving the World One Lasagna at a Time I’ll be the first to acknowledge that I’ve been a bit of a downer recently. Not so much in my personal day-to-day life where I continue to be the affable, rosy-eyed optimist everyone knows and loves, but rather here in TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less. Let’s […]
Social Media Brings Out the Worst in All of Us What is it about social media that turns all of us (yes, myself included) into utter raging assholes? Don’t believe me or think that you’re the exception to this rule? Let me tell you about the two posts I put up on Facebook last week. […]
Where Will All the Teachers Go? Nobody ever teaches for the money; they teach in spite of the money. Trust me on this one. I have a B.A. from one of this country’s leading liberal arts colleges (thank you, Colgate University) along with an M.A. from the the University of Vermont, and in 20-plus years […]
C.R.T.- Critical Race Truthiness Well, there sure seems to be a lot of discussion about C.R.T. (or Critical Race Theory) these days, especially since most of the people tossing the term around so much appear to have absolutely no idea what it really means. C.R.T. has been the basis for a significant upheaval in school […]
Sometimes Affirmative Action Isn’t So Affirmative Raise your hand if you were caught by surprise when Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement a couple weeks back. Yeah, that’s what I thought. If you couldn’t see this coming, you must have Coke bottle lenses for glasses, yet somehow dropped them down a bottomless well […]
Sodomy at the Dinner Table In order to introduce this week’s topic for TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less, I have to acknowledge that the topic around my family dinner table the other night was sodomy. Now, you could see this in one of two ways. You could appreciate the fact that we still actually […]
The Red Herring Fueling White Rage As I watched the election results roll in the other night, I thought to myself, You know, there sure are a lot of angry white men in this country. Admittedly, that thought was soon followed by, I think tonight is Taco Tuesday, so I am not sure how much […]
Why Baba O’Reily is the Greatest Rock Song of All-Time I’ve been putting this one off for awhile. Perhaps it’s because I’ve just had too many other pressing topics to write about. Perhaps it’s because something so purely subjective hardly seems the stuff for TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less. Or perhaps it’s simply because […]
