Friday, August 17, 2012

BACK TO SCHOOL

It's time to return to school -- sports, homework, education, enlightenment are the order of the day. New friends are sure to be made and old relationships are sure to be broken.  To those of us who have served our decades in American schools and now see our children navigating these muddy waters, it seems well worth the struggle.  As Edward Everett once said "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

To all the students of every age may you have a sterling year.  Let the games -- and gamesmanship -- begin!




Saturday, August 11, 2012

MAINE IN THE SUMMER TIME


Mid-Coast Maine in the summer time.  What a wonderful place:  beautiful views, cool temperatures, lobster buoys dotting the bay like easter eggs.  Truly a fantastic vacation.  Henry David Thoreau said it best concerning Maine -- "There  certainly men would live forever, and laugh at death and the grave."  -- The Maine Woods.