We were reading Stephen’s final speech before he was killed. He was explaining the history of his people, building a defense for his actions.  And in the process, he was talking about Moses. The story is pretty familiar if you’ve read Exodus or watched “The Ten Commandments.” Moses is born to a Jewish couple, is […]

(First published October 9, 2014. ) I hate grading. It’s the part of teaching that made college classroom teaching somewhat easy to leave a couple decades ago. As a student, I didn’t like the random feel of grading. It may have been because I always did the work at the last minute and hoped to […]

There’s an iris outside my window, six feet away from the iris in my eye. Actually, there are four stems, with several buds and blossoms on each. They are iris color. Purplish, violetish, iris. Just to my right, their left, are coral bells. They are coral color. Between us, close to the screen, are the […]

It’s not, you know. Today isn’t the first day of summer. It’s just a Tuesday, the day after Memorial Day (US). The day after remembering that people died for us. For us, though we didn’t ask them to. For us, though they may not have been that intentional. For us, though they may not have […]

  This post was first published Memorial Day 2009. Since then, Kim Jong Il has died, as has my dad. Andrew is working in social media. And there still isn’t peace in North Korea or many other parts of the world. We still need to wage peace. +++  Earlier this week, Andrew (@itsswanny) began following […]