I’m not old, but I’m old fashioned. Or, maybe I just long for the good old days like those before me, and like those will after me. I’m certain the music that I grew up with was probably mediocre at best, and that it absolutely grated upon the ears of my elders. Styles, tastes …
I use words as others use algebraic signs: with meticulousness, with caution, with the precision of the artisan. I sculpt in words. I stop. I tilt my head. I listen to the echoes. The tables of emotional resonance. The fine tuned reverberations of pain and love and fear. Air waves and photonic ricochets answered …
We’re all affected by images of Hollywood stars, models and celebrities smoking – off-duty or otherwise. Whether that means that individual celebrities have a moral responsibility to us all to shun smoking in their working and private lives is another matter. What is arguably more interesting than any of that is why on earth …
In America there are many options for educating our children. There are public schools, private schools, charter schools, Montessori schools and, of course, the option of homeschooling. There are advocates of both homeschooling and public schooling. Those of us who don’t home school, which is still the majority of Americans, need to fully understand …
Earth’s weather can produce various kinds of windstorm which include waterspouts, dust devils and tornadoes. Although they have the common features of a column of rotating air, they are actually formed through different processes. Dust devils and small whirlwinds are caused by severe local heating of the earth’s surface that makes the air rise …
Some 26% of parents in each of the American states consider homeschooling for their children over normal school classes. This is because of the benefits both the parents and the children get as a social being. Homeschooling gives them the chance to be free of old school days with pressure and daily assignments. Due …
Johnny is a creative story-writer, but he can’t write an essay to save his life. Does this ring true for your child or student? Johnny has had some good writing instruction. He can recite the steps of The Writing Process from the posters he has seen in every classroom throughout his elementary school years. …
Many people throughout history have wondered about this simple question: Why is the sky blue? It is so simple yet so complicated. When the sky is blue and clear it is because molecules in the air reflect blue light from the sun more than they are reflecting red light. The sun has all the …
Many Americans feel that marijuana is helping fund the war on terror, but making a war on drugs and keeping marijuana illegal has not stopped millions of Americans from smoking pot everyday. So what is the answer? First, why is marijuana still illegal in many states? In the 1930’s William Randolph Hearst, who had …