Author: Tehanu

  My daughter strikes again with thoughts on the Pledge of Allegiance that students are required to say at her school at the beginning of second block every day.   I thought this was an interesting essay particularly...

  Every once in a while my daughter lets me post something she’s written.  Lately she’s been thinking about getting a PhD. in environmental engineering and another in Archaeology so she can take the...

  My 9 year old daughter is tall, strong, and deeply concerned with what she sees hapening in America.  She wanted me to share with you a paper she just finished for her ninth grade Honors English class.  I know...

  For us, it usually begins with whiskey.  You come to the door after the funeral, pondering combined thoughts of mortality and potential.  You set your things down on the back bed and come forward to make your...

Mom claims my dad’s always been the last guy through the door before the opportunity closed.  I’m delighted it turned out that way, because this man grew up in a boxcar among the Irish railroad builders....