Oh, my, how times have changed. But whether they’ve changed for the better is questionable. There isn’t much else in […]
Category: columns
Turkey for you, turkey for me
Call a person a turkey, and you might be using fighting words. But I can make an exception and even […]
Executing the ‘J.D. Slam’
A simple act of closing a car door inspired this column. Even I find it hard to have so many […]
A great memory for names
One of my dreams as a teacher was to be able to greet students years after they’d moved on, and […]
Don’t ask us any questions
A half dozen of us sat nervously in the advanced English classroom of Mrs. Ruth Shafer, a veteran teacher who, […]
A disappointing eclipse
We wuz robbed!” Or, as my English teacher at Immaculate Conception School, Sister Mas Grammatica, would have said, back in […]
Common school breaks help
Only a few months ago, Bonnie and I flew to Iceland to join our son, Stan, his wife and two […]
A year with Asian students
For now, let’s simply call them “Kitty” and “Tookta,” the second name pronounced with a long “o,” as in Tuke-tah.” […]
What’s the opposite of fiction?
Back in fifth or sixth grade at Immaculate Conception School, Sister Mary Espantosa, ran us through the reading curriculum by […]
But it’s in black and white
Back in the olden days, in the era of black-and-white movies and TV-less households, the weekend highlight for many Las […]