Over the weekend, I drove down the western spine of Virginia, through the Blue Ridge mountains, and then returned. Somehow I was totally surprised by the landscape. I think I usually see the Blue Ridge mountains from the eastern side. At dusk they can look absolutely turquoise-teal blue, bluer-than-blue blue. It’s suddenly obvious how they [...]
.First of all, my internet is down this Friday morning, so I don’t know when my post will actually go up. If I were ahead of the game (coughs and stares at floor…) I would have finished this post yesterday and it would be already out in the blogoverse waiting to be published from The [...]
In my past life as a teacher I used to hear graduating 8th graders talk about how they wanted to change the world. The terms they used were very general, and I wasn’t in the business of saying, “Don’t be ridiculous,” to earnest students who were leaving for high school. But these were teenagers who [...]
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