How Sweet the Sound |
I spent a week this summer keeping my teaching skills fresh by teaching at my church's vacation bible school.My favorite part was when I directed my students to draw a sad face on a sticker to represe...
Posted by Mike on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:02:00 PST |
Fletch Lives! |
So I'm sitting here in the Bruegger's Bagels bakery in my old hometown, waiting to pick my daughter up from a birthday party at the movies, where she and her six-year-old compadres are watching the bi...
Posted by Mike on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:44:00 PST |
Im the king of pain, but He is everything... |
I like to use music in my classroom, and find it especially useful in teaching poetry. In teaching my seniors recently that poetry can express sadness and disappointment, I played "King of Pain" by Th...
Posted by Mike on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:08:00 PST |
Watch one of my favorite sci-fi films for free |
Intelligent sci-fi rarely sells in Hollywood. The masses tend to prefer either simplistic, crowd-pleasing fantasies or overblown special effects blockbusters. Those which take chances, tell intelligen...
Posted by Mike on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:55:00 PST |
Incredible Grand Central video |
I was at Joe Hill's Web site recently and noticed he'd published a YouTube video of an experimental art project at Grand Central Terminal (my favorite building in the world).An artist had employed doz...
Posted by Mike on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:30:00 PST |
You're gonna love, love, love this... |
Over the weekend, I had the very good fortune to meet Marvin and Murray Lender, the bagel barons, at a social event.
Murray Lender invented frozen, mass-produced bagels and his company (now owned by K...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:52:00 PST |
Gobble up our Thanksgiving recipes! |
After what was perhaps the best Thanksgiving dinner we ever enjoyed, I figured I'd share our recipes with my online friends!
Super-Moist Two-Day Turkey
Ingredients:
1 14- to 15-pound tur...
Posted by Mike on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 08:19:00 PST |
I sold my column! |
An early birthday present for me!
The Waterbury Republican-American, a fantastic newspaper (with excellent editorial judgment!), bought my lifestyle column "And Sometimes Why." The first one ran ...
Posted by Mike on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 03:36:00 PST |
CNN anchor Keith Olbermann's scathing commentary on the post-9/11 Bush administration |
Two weeks ago, CNN anchor Keith Olbermann took a cue from late newsman Edward R. Murrow and broadcast a scathing commentary about the Bush administration five years after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist ...
Posted by Mike on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:15:00 PST |
A few random notes about me (because I have a few minutes now) |
What I find most delightful:That my children love the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as much as I did at their age.
What I still hope for:That my children will come to love the book Where the Wild Thin...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:31:00 PST |
