No one is harder on me… December 6, 2021 …than me. I have a two day subbing gig tomorrow and Wednesday. This time it will be with middle schoolers. For the past twenty… Continue Reading
Truth in Advertizing December 4, 2021 I have spent the better part of the last month in overdrive organizing 50 years worth of family and personal documents. It has been… Continue Reading
The current column in the Reader November 20, 2021 The poor old Duluth Reader is having trouble keeping its online version up with its paper version so I can no longer guarantee a… Continue Reading
“Seeing Red,” My long misarchived column found November 17, 2021 My archiving work keeps turning up lost or misplaced items. One such last night was the letter my Grandfather wrote to my mother after… Continue Reading
Substitute teaching October 28, 2021 I was just on this site to renew my substitute teaching license. Actually I signed up for it in 2018 and never put it… Continue Reading
Next is math October 28, 2021 I’m quite pleased with the note below from Duolingo. Its about the sixth such thank you I have received and to me its a… Continue Reading
Not Eudora endorses Loren Martell October 26, 2021 I’m voting for Loren Martell It begins: Other than me, no has kept a closer eye on the Duluth School Board for the last… Continue Reading
Bottle of Wine, my latest Reader column. Sorry but… October 14, 2021 The Reader didn’t manage to put the 2 preceeding columns leading up to it online. I will sort that out in a week upon… Continue Reading
“Life is too short to learn German.” September 18, 2021 I don’t blame the French for recalling their ambassador over the loss of their submarine sales. It was a huge deal for them with… Continue Reading
In the Bag September 18, 2021 My latest Reader Column Keely Welty not wearing a paper bag. It begins: “Jesus was in the Wilderness 40 days. Churchill was in his… Continue Reading
Heidi O’Bromowitz September 3, 2021 My latest Not Eudora column for the Reader: Heidi O’Bromowitz, AKA Harry’s little sister It begins: While I wallowed in self pity as the… Continue Reading
Hitting My Stride August 25, 2021 Two days ago I posted a letter I’d sent to Superintendent Myles back in 1997. Today I’m posting page 89 of the book I… Continue Reading
Historian of the School Board August 23, 2021 I sent in my seventh consecutive weekly column to the Reader over the weekend. It was cobbled together from about six previous stabs at… Continue Reading
36 Children, 50 years later August 14, 2021 My latest ed related column in this week’s Reader: Continue Reading
My kind of Republicans…..miracle workers August 4, 2021 My last week’s Reader Column now online: It begins: Fifteen years ago I began research for an as yet unwritten book on a now… Continue Reading
post script Column 3 “Seeing is Believing” July 17, 2021 Tucker Carlson doesn’t really belong in the story of my education but his craven Foxian disinformation gave me a chance to leak a little… Continue Reading
Post script column 2, The Edmund Fitzgerald July 17, 2021 On November 10th 1976 the ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald sank in “Gale of November” as described in the pop song The Sinking of the… Continue Reading
Every teacher says “I aughta write a book” July 17, 2021 The book I may be writing: I undertook a weekly challenge three weeks ago with a teaser column titled Whetting Voters’ Appetites for the… Continue Reading
Sitting and Thinking July 16, 2021 Standards will save us or they will be the death of us all. Or maybe neither. The Editor of the Reader chose a much… Continue Reading