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  • A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week 20

    A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week 20

    Teachers who have a vision of democratic education assume that learning is never confined solely to an institutionalized classroom. Rather than embodying the conventional false…

  • “The Long Walk Home,” 25 years ago

    Twenty-five years ago, in the summer of 1989, I was a bored fourteen-year-old with nothing to do, so it only made sense to wander over…

  • A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #19

    A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #19

    In honor of Father’s Day, I give you a quote from the father of American poetry, Walt Whitman: “Other states indicate themselves in their deputies . . . .…

  • Deep Southern Gardening Mystery #5

    I’m always looking around at plants and flowers in people’s yards when I drive around town. I see these in the older neighborhoods in Montgomery, but I…