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first fast

1
February

Last Friday, I ate lunch at the campus café.  When I got home that evening, faced with a low-key weekend full of reading and classwork, I decided spontaneously that I would fast for the weekend. David fasts once per year, and does it seriously.  He will fast either five or ten days, drinking some combination [...]

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hardly education

17
January

Last semester, while discussing culture wars in American education, my professor told the story of her NYU professor friend who spent a few years teaching middle school social studies prior to pursuing his doctorate.  During a lesson on Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a student brought up that King had been unfaithful to his wife [...]

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restart/continue

14
January

This new year started off with a drive back to Nashville followed immediately by a cold that coincided with days of snow and sub-freezing temps, just in time for the start of the spring semester. As for the resolutions, here are a few: 1. Satisfy my magpie syndrome more from nature than from people-made crap. [...]

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pictures have big ears

22
October

Here are some recent pictures from life in Nashville and a visit back home.  Louisiana: I love you, I miss you, I’ll see you again soon.  But I gotta admit, the changing colors of the leaves is nice. Love, RM.

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gay love from a straight girl

12
October

National Coming Out Day was yesterday, Judge Virginia Phillips ruled today that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is unconstitutional, and a recent rash of publicized bullying and suicides have raised awareness about the intolerance and discrimination that are still far too prevalent and evident in our communities.  The only choice in this equation is the choice [...]

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Tea

5
October

For the past six or seven or eight months I’ve wasted many hours in an electronic debate with someone who has vastly different political views than I do.  I was baited into it by his assertion that he believed what he believed because he thought it based on reason.  What a joke, and what an [...]

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mosque hysteria

27
August

Here is a link to the best thing I’ve yet read/heard about the mosque/Islamic center controversy, posted by a friend on Facebook.  Everyone everywhere should read this, straight from the Memphis Flyer.  First, a taste: “I can neither accept nor believe that the spirit and principles of our remarkable Constitution were crushed beneath the crumbling [...]

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crude awakening

16
May

Another catastrophe hits the Gulf Coast.  A veritable ecosystems-destroying, this-region-will-never-be-the-same-again, absolute disaster.  And all most of us can do is watch and wait with stress in our chests, sadness in our hearts, and lots of anger. This is what collateral damage looks like. There is so much to say, so much yet to unfold, and [...]

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rouge neck

17
March

Both sides of my family are conservative and working class.  Throughout the years, many an anti-liberal, anti-intellectual, anti-Democratic-candidate email forward has landed unwelcome in my inbox.  I try to keep the peace sometimes, but I resent when others feel complete freedom to make their views known to me while I’m told to just delete the [...]

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beer and a hurricane

12
March

I love beer and sometimes I take pictures of my drinks.   In honor of St. Paddy’s Day, here are some of my favorites. NYC Knoxville Charlotte Where ya think?!

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