Monthly Archives: January 2006

Anybody see/hear Bush’s State of the Union speech tonight? Compare it to these “highlights” from his 2004 address: http://www.prez2012.com/stateoftheunion.mov

Yes, that’s a play on “disparity.” I think I may have blogged once on this before – it figures prominently in my novel – and that is the obvious and glaring disparities caused by economic and ethnic and linguistic segregation … Continue reading →

To answer the question from my previous blog, I would say yes. In The Alchemist, a book Mar, my teaching partner, gave me for my birthday in December, the shepherd boy realizes it’s taken him a couple of years to … Continue reading →

Not so new anymore, actually. Already the 17th?!?! Shame on me. For my first blog of 2006, I thought these song lyrics from John Mayer’s “Why Georgia” were appropriate. I heard them for the first time on the plane to … Continue reading →