A Musing on the Road to Mordor
When I was a middle school social studies teacher, part of the curriculum was to teach about the geography, people, history and culture of different areas of the world. It wasn’t always the most exciting thing for these students to learn. Most 11, 12, and 13-year-olds are just not interested in knowing that a certain country’s chief products are sorghum, bananas, and rice. (To be honest most teachers are not real excited about that either.) So, in order to get kids attention,
A Musing about Relationships
I was recently reading some fun fiction. It was a crime fighting “who done it” kind of novel. One of the main characters was a former President who talked about how boring his life was now that all he did was go around giving the same speech at events where he was invited to present. He mused that he knew his Secret Service had to be as sick of hearing the same speech as he certainly was of giving it. In real life lots of folks who are on the speaking tour have one or two can