U & D

Immediately following Pres. Obama’s speech I had these thoughts:

I need a copy (quickly found on NPR) – isn’t the Internet great?
What will be the ramifications of the allusion to Washington crossing the Delaware?

You should know that I, in another job and almost 25 years ago, brought a group of Long Island middle schoolers to the [...]

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So much has happened in the last two months, it’s hard to know where and how to begin. Right now, the Inauguration is on my mind. First, let’s see what “inauguration” means (language is very important – it is rarely wholly ours). The word is from Latin, “inauguare” which in turn comes from the root [...]

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