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I don’t have much to say about the death of Ted Kennedy—in many ways he was a product of an era before my time, and I’ve always been impressed with the Kennedys but immune to their “magic”—but it also made me think about how much politics seems to have changed for the worse. (Yes, I [...]

So we’re three days into the new school year and the most surprising feeling so far is one of ease. After five years of learning how to teach, followed by five years with small children at home, teaching has turned into a fairly routine job. Not routine in the sense of nothing happening. C’mon, it’s [...]

Yep, it’s the  last true day of summer vacation. I can’t complain. It was easily the best summer of my life. I’m the luckiest guy in the world if I can say that each August! And nothing encapsulates my summer like a little Spongebob. Click below.
SpongeBob SquarePants – The Best Day Ever

I spent part of the last week returning to one of my favorite authors, Hermann Hesse. There are probably only four prolific authors where I can say, ”I think I’ve read almost everything they have written”: Fyodor Dostoevsky, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac,  and Herman Hesse. His earnest mix of logic and mysticism always connects with me.
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Last week I took Sam to his first professional baseball game, and my first at the new Busch Stadium. Not surprisingly, I wanted to dislike it (since I think St. Louis has more pressing needs than a $400 million stadium as a replacement for the acceptable previous Busch Stadium). I also love baseball history but [...]

I’m at Borders earlier tonight, in the Literature section, when I overhear two high school girls in the aisle next to me:
“Oh, you’re going to be busy if you have to read that. I’d SparkNote it.”
“Yeah, we also have to read Lord of the Flies. I got to page forty but now I’ve switched to [...]

There are obviously lots of strange things about home ownership—especially the “grownup” part of it that I’m still getting comfortable with seven years into it. Suddenly you find yourself at Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Menards all in the same day, and you spend most of your time in the toilet section. (Not in a Jackass [...]

So there is a lot of sad and funny irony in the entire Tea Party experience, but my favorite comes from today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Kenneth Gladney is a Tea Party supporter and one of the protesters recently hurt at a forum in Melville “when, he says, he was attacked by members of the Service Employees [...]