The Alna Harridan

What follows is an email I wish I could send to what passes for our HR department:  File under #2021Sharecropping  Dear HR Person, I could u...

This never-got-posted post is about eight months late. Typical.  A California Gray Fox is my closest neighbor here in the deserted dorm vil...

Quickly, this blog no longer lives in Alna, Maine, though my house, and my barn, and most of my stuff are still there. My horses and I mo...

... and I don't mean, Das Boot . Today marks the end of my second week at LL Bean's behemoth Return Center, where we "seas...

Here's a link to my op-ed published in our statewide paper, the Maine Sunday Telegram, 23.June.13, about Maine's Department of Educ...

Cambridge brings back its entrance exam. This is a test, besides my own, I'd be happy to teach to.

You’ll never eat crabs again: Barry Levinson’s eco-freakout ‘The Bay’ | Grist Frontline did the documentary so well, Levinson had to tell t...

Spurred by a recent "public notice" in the Kennebec Journal seeking bids to evaluate Maine teachers and administrators with an eye...

Dear Internet, I love you. Up until this morning I was a social media block virgin. Well, at least this was the first time I cared whe...

NEW Public Player With Switcher This is not all. We public school teachers are not machines to be replaced by the next new thing. If this ...