This is not a book review. Instead, it is a look back on the recent past and a cautious peep into the future. This book is a reminder that human problems do not go away without a price (violence, racism, poverty, economic woes). Mostly, it allows me to look into…
My Grandson’s camera opened a whole new world; for me.
Almost every time I take my grandkids hiking with me, I take my camera. One day last week I took my grandson Lennon with me and for reasons I won’t even try to understand, I gave him one of my…
Don’t hold your breath waiting for politicians to do what’s right.
Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and each other.
Paulo Freire — Pedagogy of the Oppressed
I no longer have faith in…
Data, statistics, celebrities, doctors, and common sense is not enough to convince those people who are fearful of the Covid-19 vaccinations. But I am good with it.
I was watching Michael Che’s HBO Max comedy series, That Damn Michael Che. One of the skits that took place in a barbershop…
Thanks to a photo exhibition, a book, and a short lecture, I got a chance to know Billie Holiday more intimately.
Billie Holiday could have been a good friend of mine. If space and time would have somehow made our lives cross at the right time, I am convinced we…
There are several paths to a cybersecurity career — here are three of them.
Three Cybersecurity Pathways for High School Students
There are multiple paths to a career in cybersecurity. If you ask ten people in the cybersecurity industry about their path, you will receive ten routes to the same…
I attempted to clean out my garage, but I still could not bring myself to throw out all of my vinyl.
I stopped buying vinyl albums sometime in the late 1980s. The first time I ever heard a CD playing was in a Sears Department store in 1984. Honestly, I…
When the world gets a little unbearable, I take the time and go to one of the many state, regional and national parks located throughout Colorado. An hour's drive in any direction can put me in the middle of a…
Education presents a tempting unitary point of influence over a whole host of social problems, with potential downstream effects touching everything from childhood poverty to economic malaise to racial inequity, not to mention existential concerns.
-Sanjay Sarma
Inside out learning (the chess method)
When…
Some of my earliest memories of the concept of slavery were in elementary school, where it seems that I first heard that Lincoln freed the slaves. I heard it so much at an…
Thomas Holt Russell
Humanist, educator, writer, photographer, and modern-day Luddite. http://thomasholtrussell.zenfolio.com/ My writing is a living organism.
