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American Pricing: Part II
What is the difference between price and cost? I admire people who can understand numbers, crunch them with ease. I used to be good with numbers myself. There was a time when I could calculate GPA in my head. I … Continue reading
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American Pricing: Part I
How much does a dozen eggs cost? Did you remember to add in the tax? I’ve been thinking about the cost of things lately. It started with my land line. I believe in having a land line, but I don’t … Continue reading
Quitting
So…I’m quitting the sophomore story thing. I wrote an explanation of why, but I lost it, and I don’t think it was that good. Quitting makes me feel lousy, so I try to avoid it, but sometimes I have to. … Continue reading
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Four Arms, Four Legs, and Two Faces: Another Sophomore Inspiration
I probably should keep all this in my diary. I have no real authority when it comes to relationships, but I do have a number of experiences, observations, and suppositions I can lay out about how the heart beats. First, … Continue reading
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Forgive Silence: My Next Sophomore Payment
This piece is the next in the set inspired by my Sophomore class of last year. ___________ Final Wishes The small recipe box had one corner singed from a long-ago house fire, but it still looked like a recipe box, … Continue reading
Keeping Promises: Billy Hero
Billy was having the same dream for the fourth time. The first time started with him in a valley. Up on the ridge the peaks were lit green against an impossibly blue sky, but the valley he was … Continue reading
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Paying Promises: Part 1
During last semester I promised my Sophomores that I would blog about each and every one of them. I knew better. I have real trouble concentrating for an hour, and I make a promise to concentrate for a fortnight. Orignially … Continue reading
Goodbye, Sophomores
Even now I am watching the Stonewall take his final, and it occurs to me that I owe all my sophomores a blog posting. I promised them I would, and then I went and got distracted by my job and … Continue reading
Building Hell: A New Way to Study
This ends the umpty-umth time I’ve been involved in building Dante’s Inferno as a class activity. My Sophomore Dynasty at Narnia tonight managed to bring togehter a nearly complete sculptural rendering of the first part of the Commedia. I will … Continue reading
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Writing Workshop: Describe Your Relationship with a Parent
He sits in his usual chair at the kitchen table in the predawn darkness. The light overhead bathes the scene in golden light. His head is down, as though he is studying his own reflection from the surface of the … Continue reading
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Choosing Ebenezer 