She sent me my own words from this old Not Eudora column<\/a> about my lack of enthusiasm for returning to the School Board in 2004 when I filed for reelection in a huff over all the East Hockey Dad’s threatening my election because I didn’t think crapping on kids on the back benches was all that cool no matter if East collected lots of State Hockey Championship berths.<\/p>\nLittle did I know that my replacement would prove to be as nasty to people attending School Board meetings as he accused my school board of being to him……nastier in fact.<\/p>\n
This is in the column.<\/p>\n
I visit two civics classes at East High. I tell the students I\u2019m not sure I really want to stay on the school board. In one class I notice a globe suspended from the ceiling. I ask if anyone knows the story of Hercules and Atlas, who held the world on his shoulders. I pull the teacher\u2019s stool over under the globe climb up on it and place myself under the globe. I tell the class that, like Atlas, I\u2019m tired of having itchy trees growing up through my toes and not being able to scratch them. I tell them that Tom Hustad, my challenger, could be my Hercules. In the myth Atlas asks Hercules to hold up the earth for a few minutes while he scratches his toes. Hercules obliges but discovers that Atlas is in no great hurry to resume his burden.<\/strong><\/p>\nAll she did was send a smile emoji. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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