Archive | May, 2009
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IDEALS, ICONS AND INDEPENDENT THINKING

My 11th grade American History teacher was imperious and formidable. Carl Damson – oh, we had fun with that name outside his earshot – had taught so long that some of our parents were still intimidated by him at conferences.  Freshman and sophomore alike looked ahead to his required class as inevitable doom.  To hear [...]

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MORNING IN PHILADELPHIA

We are hurtling westward from Atlantic City in the pre-dawn.  The fog renders the inky blackness more mysterious than it has a right to.   Ghostly clusters of deer feeding in the median and the ditch appear briefly in the dim headlights of our tiny rental.  We are speeding toward the river, and Pennsylvania. By all [...]

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