Although severe, my principal modeled attention to detail — a skill I needed to survive a career To read "Kenneth Voss: The Letter (part 1)," please click here. MR. VOSS WAS an object of speculation and fascination to the students and … [Read more...] about Kenneth Voss: The Letter (part 2)
Norman Maclean: “But we can still love them”
JESSIE: Why is it the people who need the most help ... won't take it? NORM: I don't know, Jess. I FIRST BEGAN writing about my family on HuffPost on October 25, 2007. My first blogs were impassioned, enraged, self-righteous. We all … [Read more...] about Norman Maclean: “But we can still love them”
“Moonlight Sonata”: Learning to Be Still
I SUSPECT EACH of us is allotted a certain amount of transcendence; those moments when the veil is thin, when the Eternal offers her hand — gloved, sublime — and draws us up to observe the dance of the cosmos through the screen of heaven. I have … [Read more...] about “Moonlight Sonata”: Learning to Be Still
Jane Hoyt-Oliver: The Power of Caring
I SIGNED UP for Janie's SOC 202 course unwillingly. From the start, I was suspicious of the course title: Problems in Society. The fact that it was a sociology course only made it worse. I had grown up in an Amish-Mennonite world, and I … [Read more...] about Jane Hoyt-Oliver: The Power of Caring
Bethany & Sharon: When a student schools the Master
IT’S HARD TO admit you’re wrong. It’s especially difficult when the person criticizing you — someone you’re sure knows far less than you — doesn’t merit your respect. Like an annoying high school student. Yet some of my most powerful lessons … [Read more...] about Bethany & Sharon: When a student schools the Master
Sooki: “More than a pet lost”
This week, Steven Denlinger is leading his high school journalism team to NSPA’s Spring Convention in San Francisco. In his place, senior editor Kara Fohner offers a Guest Column previously published in The Lenoir News-Topic. EVERY TIME I walk … [Read more...] about Sooki: “More than a pet lost”
