Catharine Lucas/Poetry

AFTERMATH Big Sur, California, May 2009 Phosphorescent green flickers against wet dark,             fire in another tongue Memorials of trees, stripped bare, black as mummies, stand witness Leaf-laden alders, parchment ghosts, testify in blanched whispers Our dead...

Alita Pirkopf/Poetry

  TEAHO– USE IN THE JAPANESE GARDEN The young man and the ancient Japanese flute make sounds like breath and wind, like rain and river, make sounds that soar—like birds— sounds that sing— toward evening’s silence, sounds we are told, of water dripping— from...
Carmen Firan/Commentary

Carmen Firan/Commentary

Kayle Kaupanger, Unsplash Trump International Hotel And Tower Chicago. Chicago, United States. *** From Kafka’s Castle to Trump’s Tower by Carmen Firan Every morning K waited to be called up into the Castle. A mysterious authority ruled over a world of fear and...
Larry Dake/Education

Larry Dake/Education

JJ Thompson photo. Unsplash.com *** What do the 2015 PISA Results Tell Us About American Schools?  An Encouraging Story…   by Larry Dake The public refrain has been familiar for some time now: “Public schools are in crisis and we have to fix them.”  This theme...
Brian Fay/Education

Brian Fay/Education

Wikipedia Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights marchers.   Bravery In Education by Brian G. Fay My teaching career began long after the revolutions of the sixties and seventies. I wasn’t born until 1968 and so I never marched in the protests for Vietnam let...