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Strangers on a Train
Years ago, as a student, I found an intimate connection between the sensibilities of Europe and me. I also discovered that Paris is astrologically ruled by the sign of Libra governed by the planet...
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A paradoxical land of brilliant greens and dusty browns
We are in Florida where I sleep soundly and sense a kinship with my surroundings. We make a day trip to St. Augustine, the oldest port in the U.S. and the oldest occupied established European city, a...
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You can starve a body, but you can’t starve a mind
Academy Awards Night As the year winds down I go through my book shelves and make two piles; books that I’ve bought, read and won’t read again that I will give away, and those to sell to a used...
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Stand and Deliver and the legacy of Jaime Escalante
Today I read that Jaime Escalante, the High School mathematics teacher who inspired the film, Stand and Deliver, has died, he was 79. The article said, he virtually performed a miracle in a tough...
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What happens when you familiarize yourself with a literature classic by watching a television show? And what transpires when students are exposed to great works of literature by what they view versus...
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Lost Translation
Language can be tough to master. Today I found a list of English words that Russian multilingual novelist Nabokov (the author of Lolita en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita) reportedly found difficult to...
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Nanu Nanu
I was reading somewhere online about the vast majority of indigenous languages still spoken in the United States that are on the verge of extinction. Taken aback, I thought other than perhaps the...
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She’s Got It
I’m looking at the last several blog posts and they’re loaded with book reviews. Last fall when I signed up for Goodreads I promised myself that in 2013 I’d read 20 books. I’m currently on my 20th. I...
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Invisible with Endless Ideas
Last Monday I meant to load this blog post when I could not find my website. I was directed to Go Daddy and was instructed to call Host Gator since they host my domain. It’s taken this long for the...
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