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To the morning

Posted on October 6, 2021 by profkf

So just yesterday, in talking to my lovely daughter for her birthday (the conversation was a day late, as on her actual (41st) birthday, timing was out of whack [her mom duties overpowered her “self” duties], she asked me what … Continue reading →

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Camelot

Posted on September 23, 2021 by profkf

A mythic place, a place that never really existed except in legend. Thus the thoughts this beautiful South Carolina morning…. If you’ve read anything prior, you know that I spent the overwhelming majority of my adult life teaching (mostly high … Continue reading →

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Miles From Nowhere

Posted on September 22, 2021 by profkf

We have begun to “settle in”. Unpacking is done and we have been very pleased with the way the new home is laid out in terms of space. While we don’t have a basement, attic or shed, the good news … Continue reading →

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Changing Horses in the Middle of the Stream

Posted on September 16, 2021 by profkf

It’s not an accurate depiction of what I’m going to write, but it is apropos … When I left Weston High in 2012 it was not at the traditional end of the year, it was at the conclusion of the … Continue reading →

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A whole new world

Posted on September 11, 2021 by profkf

In so very many ways. We are two weeks into our residence in South Carolina. We have spent almost all our time unpacking and arranging things. We still have to get window treatments on many of the windows, but the … Continue reading →

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Men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool.

Posted on September 6, 2021 by profkf

And thus one of my favorite lines from the far overlooked satirist Jonathan Swift (honestly, does anyone in any school even read him any longer? he has so much to give….) comes to mind tonight. I promise I am not … Continue reading →

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And where do you go….

Posted on September 3, 2021 by profkf

I”ve spent a ton of years wanting to get out of the north and the cold….it was a dream. A dream I never thought I’d realize. Well tonight I sit in Bluffton, SC having realized that dream. Yes it’s currently … Continue reading →

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Swamp Fox

Posted on August 25, 2021 by profkf

Well the title is a reference, for those of you FAR younger than I, to a very old Disney set of episodes about Francis Marion (it ran from Oct 59 till Jan 61, see I told you OLD) It starred … Continue reading →

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The Time Has Come, The Walrus Said, To Talk of Many Things:

Posted on August 22, 2021 by profkf

Let me start by saying I know all the very good and positive things that are on the horizon, and I also know “one day we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny”. Now that we’ve established … Continue reading →

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Across the Great Divide….

Posted on August 22, 2021 by profkf

Thinking of Nanci Griffith tonight…and a LOT of other things… “I’ve been walkin’ in my sleepCountin’ troubles ‘stead of countin’ sheepWhere the years went I can’t sayI just turned around and they’ve gone away I’ve been siftin’ through the layersOf … Continue reading →

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