by Jeffrey Scherer | Jan 9, 2021 | Cultural, Environment, Health, People, Philosphy, Politics, Social, social media, Teaching, writing |
In this, my first article for 2021, I have to address the sadness lodged in my corpus. January 6, 2021 was an inflection point and the culmination of 48 months of incitement by DJT. His rapid fire and continuous and inciting tweets provided all of the fuel that the...
by Jeffrey Scherer | Dec 25, 2020 | Cultural, Health, People, Politics, Social, social media, Teaching, Uncategorized, writing |
As 2020 comes to a close, I thought I would make my last post of the year about this eventful and bizarre year. All of us have experienced 2020 in different ways. For me, this year has brought revelations and important moments for learning about the world around me...
by Jeffrey Scherer | Sep 25, 2020 | Cultural, Health, People, Philosphy, Politics, Social, social media, Teaching, Testing, Uncategorized, writing |
When I was a kid and working on my homework, I had a habit of asking mom how to spell a word. She was adamant that I look up the word. I don’t recall her ever helping me in that way. After a while I got so used to looking up the words that it became a pleasant...
by Jeffrey Scherer | Sep 22, 2020 | Cultural, Health, People, Philosphy, Politics, Social, social media |
The last several weeks have been trying ones. First we were locked down by Covid (and still are). Then came wildfires that generated millions of cubic feet of life threatening smoke, killed dozens and wiped out the homes of several 1,000 families as well as the...
by Jeffrey Scherer | Sep 18, 2020 | Cultural, People, Politics, Social, social media |
Today, at 4:50PM PST I saw a news flash on my phone that Ruth Bader Ginsberg had just died. It felt like cosmic punch was thrown into my gut. Besides her lauded intellect and service to justice, I just really liked her spunk. I will not repeat all of the...
by Jeffrey Scherer | Sep 17, 2020 | Health, People, Philosphy, Politics, Social, social media |
“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical Roberta. The song has these opening lyrics: Now, laughing friends deride, Tears I cannot hide. Oh-oh-oh-oh, so I smile and say,...
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