True Patriots to Remember on Patriots’ Day
Today is Patriots’ Day in Massachusetts. It is observed to commemorate the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington & Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. The Red Sox, since 1959, have scheduled a home game at Fenway Park on this day, and the Boston Marathon has been run on Patriots’ Day since [...]
Taylor wins the 25 yard Butterfly!
A long time ago, while attending college in preparation to become a teacher, I learned something that has come to mean a great deal to me. It’s about kids… but more about character and self and how the heart meets the mind and spirit. And it’s about determination. Here it is: As teachers and parents [...]
“The genius of the United States… is always most in the common people.”
In his 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman wrote: The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. On this [...]
