For fascinating listening there is “The Great Influenza” by John Barry. It’s available from the County Library and provides hours of informative material on a…
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Her name was Cocoa. She spelled it like the beverage, not Jane Goodall’s gorilla. She looked Ethiopian with her cafe con leche complexion, high cheekbones, and yellowish brown eyes—most of the women at the party were Ethiopian. However, Cocoa was from Senegal. She had the poise and the figure of a young woman in her early 20s. He was stunned to discover she was seventeen—the same age as the high school seniors to whom he taught biology.
Good friends Don and Misty are coming up to Bieber for a few April days before we road trip north together. Don is Portuguese and…
A friend recently sent me a link to a short movie about a high school art teacher in St. Paul Minnesota whose students are recent arrivals from other countries, refugees from military conflicts. Many of the students barely speak English, so this teacher has devised fun and creative ways to explore color theory without needing much language for the learning.
When we feel gratitude, we give ourselves the gift of concentrating on what's important, and when we share our gratitude, it helps others feel gratitude,…
It was an early spring day and I sat in my dentist's waiting room. The only magazine that looked even half interesting proved to be…
When I am not in a condition of employment — and this is a rarer state than you might imagine, given the depth, breadth and…
Bruce Bochy said Joe Panik sat for nine innings and then came up and squared the ball for a run and the win Friday night…
Though the singing of the American national anthem at sporting events retains vestigial trappings of patriotism, the real point of the exercise is entertainment, the…