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Monthly Archives: November 2004

Inertia

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

I got a science lesson a couple of days ago. We use a 300 gallon tank to haul water in the back of our truck. We buy it from a bulk fill station because our house is so far out of town and up the hill that a well might have cost a fourth as [...]

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Leaving Some Children Behind

Monday, November 15, 2004

A couple of other teachers were sitting by me in the bleachers at the middle school gym on Saturday. We were watching our daughters play indoor soccer. The girls’ soccer coach keeps stats on all of the players. We were watching him make notes on his clipboard, and I began thinking about all of the [...]

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Difficulty at the Beginning

Sunday, November 7, 2004

I have to wonder about my feelings after 11-2. I feel alienated from half the people around me. My like-minded compadres all seem to feel the same. We are trying to make sense of Bush’s popularity with a lot of people we know and work with. John stuck his head in my door and waved [...]

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Finally!

Tuesday, November 2, 2004

Time to move in. It has been long in coming-this publishing project. And it seems fitting somehow that it should occur on election day. This is the day that our nation can clean house. And so it is with this blog. In my case, though, I’m just moving in. Things aren’t quite completely ready yet, [...]

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