A spanking of a kindergartner by the principal in Monticello, Georgia, made the national news recently. The mother reported in USA Today April 18, 2016 that she now regrets having given the school permission to paddle her five-year old son. When I began teaching in Colorado Springs in the late 60’s, corporal punishment was the […]
Parents pose you for Facebook and Instagram as they did after your first oatmeal-spattered funny-faced e-scrapbook close-up way back in pre-9/11 America. Dressed regally in tuxedo and tulle Boy’s bowtie carefully matched to girl’s gown. Like a pricey pubescent pram, a rented limousine whisks you away to a Disney Prince and Princess fête that bores
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Week 1: Chapters 1 and 2 (pages 2-19—18 pages) See Chapters 1 and 2 –Exiting a plane, Diana Buchanan asks Wade Middleton’s help with a heavy saddle. He throws his back out. Guilt overcomes her conservatism; she drives him home. The next morning his friend Jorge Calderon comes seeking
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Click here for Summaries and Links to Previous Chapters 13 In January the rains came. Storms rolled in from the Pacific, one after another, releasing torrents, until late in the month. The first morning the sun came out, I called Diana and asked her to meet me at the ranch over my lunch hour. I arrived
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This past week, I was lucky enough to attend the 2016 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference in Los Angeles. This writerly shindig included three full days of seminars, and a floor full of exhibitors. Oh, and there were lots of goodies: books, novelties, magazines, t-shirts, stickers, and posters. Conferences can be a bit overwhelming,
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It’s been a good run. Let’s face it, for four hundred years, we ‘owned’ the canon. Most ‘best twenty’ lists include nineteen of us, with Mary Shelley being the only interloper. This has come at great cost. A not uncommon experience was the 1895 reaction to the publication of Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, which
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