Nancy Barno Reynolds/Education

Nancy Barno Reynolds/Education

ROSS FINDON PHOTO/ Unsplash   Those Who Can, Teach: Transitioning Through Education   by Nancy Barno Reynolds Education Editor I tell people I’ve been teaching for 30 years and deep down, I feel that’s my truth: summer camp art teacher as a teen, writing tutor...

Teen Pregnancy: A Nurse’s Perspective

  Teenage Pregnancy and Education Challenges   by Mary Ryan The deepest issues faced in educating pregnant teens and teenage mothers are best illustrated by a true story. As a Maternal/Child Public Health Nurse, I am frequently called into the homes of...
Galanty Miller/Re-Tweets

Galanty Miller/Re-Tweets

  Drinking organic water, taking selfies with G-d and other random and eccentric somewhat truisms   by Galanty Miller There are way too many holidays that obligate us to spend time with our families./ I went through the 5 Stages of Death. I saw the musical...

Playlist for Donald Trump

  TAKE TEN Category: Cheerful world invasion videos Song Title: Гуманоид (Humanioid) Artist: ГрУпА СиТрО (Group Sitro) Year: 2007 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMkILFgEfVM Category: Songs to tango with Melania Song Title: Комарик (Mosquito) Artist: Пётр...
Dan Morey/Travel

Dan Morey/Travel

Dan Morey Photo A ruin along the Appian Way.   Lost in the Catacombs of Rome by Dan Morey Begun in 312 BC, the Appian Way once stretched from Rome all the way to Brindisi on the Apulian coast. Over the centuries, it acquired a rather grim history, serving as a...

Jim Palombo/Politics

    PRIMA FACIE   by Jim Palombo Politics Editor What the f* is going on? Every so often the crap hits the fan. I mean it’s in the scope of my work to pay attention to and analyze a lot of what’s on our public discussion table. But with all that’s...
On Location/France

On Location/France

    Elizabeth Prouvost: Before the light – Mixed up confusion   Elizabeth Prouvost, Claude Louis Combet, “Born from the Limon”, Fata Morgana, Fontfroide the High, 2018. (Elizabeth Prouvost, Claude Louis Combet, “Né du limon”,...
Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Photo by freestocks.org on Unsplash   Contraindications: The Game   by Mark Levy Contributing Columnist                  I thought of a new game. I call it Contraindications. Here’s how you play it: I list one or more possible adverse side effects of taking...

Catherine Box/Education

    As The Bell Rings   by Catherine Box On the one-year anniversary of the Inauguration of the 45th President, I watched the clock tick to zero on the government shutdown stopgap measure. It seems fitting that a year of turbulence ends with paralysis....

Daniel Dragomirescu/Essay

      The Death of the Gold Digger   by Daniel Dragomirescu I liked to go to the cinema even before I started going to school, and until I was twelve or thirteen I had already seen various movies. The film “The Magnificent Seven”, which was shown...
Henry A. Giroux/Commentary

Henry A. Giroux/Commentary

Photo by geralt (Pixabay) President Donald Trump   The Ghost of Fascism in the Age of Trump   By Henry A. Giroux  Contributing Editor *** In the age of Trump, history neither informs the present nor haunts it with repressed memories of the past. It simply...
Fred’s February Playlist

Fred’s February Playlist

Frank Nagel photo Mary Ocher, with Felix Kubin, one of Fred’s February picks….   TAKE TEN     Category: Forgotten Brazilian Guitarists Song Title: Amor de Argentina Artist: Américo Jacomino Year: 1928 Link:...
Greg Stewart/Around New York

Greg Stewart/Around New York

    January Jazz: What’s Hot When You’re Coming in From the Cold   by Greg Stewart Illustrations by Lidia Moroz Jazz. This large, amorphous, flexible, strange, constructed, improvisational, musical animal breathes life into New York City...
“Shithole Countries”: Trump uses rhetoric of dictators*

“Shithole Countries”: Trump uses rhetoric of dictators*

Photo by Jose Moreno on Unsplash   Employing a Language of Superlatives by Henry A Giroux George Orwell warns us in his dystopian novel 1984 that authoritarianism begins with language. In the novel, “newspeak” is language twisted to deceive, seduce and undermine...
On Location/France

On Location/France

Andelu painter in Vallauris: When reality flies   by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret Contributing Editor With Andelu the space of the  the picture is decomposed as blown by a contagious  sphere of influence. The artist seems to voice the air and the elements she...