Memphasis > The Right Thing To Wear
February 23rd, 2017
INTO CONDOMS. About 25 years ago, we went to the Cooper-Young Festival with another couple. Our sons were about 9 or 10 at the time. As we lingered at this or that booth, the boys got antsy, so a later meeting place was agreed upon and they took off. Some weeks later, the other boy’s mom was cleaning his room and found an amazing cache beneath socks and such ...
Memphasis > Publicly Advancing
February 16th, 2017
WHEN PUBLIC GOES PRIVATE, WE HAVE IT BACKWARDS. My kids and I know more about public schools and public school innovation than our brand-new secretary of education and voucher poster girl, Betsy DeVos, and our own state senator and voucher poster boy, Brian Kelsey. We actually went to public schools, actually benefitting from the innovative thinking, planning and ...
Memphasis > The Us of Us
February 9th, 2017
I AM US. I am Muslim. I am a COGIC Hindu Jewish WASP Jehovah’s Witness. I am a Roman Catholic Buddhist Satanist Seventh Day Adventist and Latter-Day Saint. I am an Atheist Agnostic Humanist Evangelist. I am a Sunni Shia Christian Rastafarian Taoist Sikh. I am a Foot-Washing, Holy-Rolling Jain Spiritualist and whatever Lord Voldemort is – and I am not. I ...
Memphasis > For What’s Bugging You
February 2nd, 2017
LOCKED AND SEASONED. I have armed myself. A while back, I was at a friend and colleague’s house in Rossville, a popular place for the Second Amendment. We were brainstorming a project we’re both involved in when he spotted a fly, several in fact. He picked up a pump gun and both of his dogs jumped up – they are, after all, hunting dogs – and ...
Memphasis > New Year, New Game
January 26th, 2017
INSPIRING WORDS FOR OUR NEW TEAM. “Sometimes they write what I say, not what I mean.” – former Cardinal, Dodger and major league MVP Pedro Guerrero, who obviously could have been president. About this time last year, I offered a few fresh sports quotes to prepare us for the onslaught of stale sports metaphors in an election year. Well, the Super Bowl ...
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