In light of former federal judge and director of the F.B.I. Louis J. Freeh’s investigation into the Penn State scandal and the release of the findings, I decided to re-post my thoughts on the matter. I’ll be curious to read your reaction to my piece given these findings. Fatherhood and fathering serve as strong themesContinue reading “Father’s Day Suite: Joe Paterno and Stories of Fatherhood”
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Models Monday: Observing the Country Mouse
For some time now I’ve been ruminating on Aesop’s fable “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.” On the surface, the story tells of two mice-one from a rural environment and one from an urban environment-who interact with one another inside the home territories of the other over a meal. In Jerry Pinkney’s version ofContinue reading “Models Monday: Observing the Country Mouse”
One Approach to Paying Medical Bills (Update)
For my Models Monday post last week I wrote about the strategies I have been developing in response to what I consider the bullying practices of the business side of medicine. You might recall the resentment I described feeling when a clerk from the hospital where I was scheduled for an MRI called on FridayContinue reading “One Approach to Paying Medical Bills (Update)”
Models Monday: Expanding the Meaning of Success
I finished reading David Halberstam’s wonderful book, The Children, late Saturday night. As I read, I recorded recurring terms used in discussing the principle subjects involved in the Nashville sit-ins when they first entered the Movement in the 1960s. My list includes the following terms: commitment, conscious, inner, worthy, serious, intellectual, serious intellectual, mutual, respect,Continue reading “Models Monday: Expanding the Meaning of Success”
Models Monday: One Approach to Paying Medical Bills
I have sarcoidosis, a disease that causes immune system cells to cluster to form lumps in various organs in the body, and it has been active for a little over three years. I’ve gone in and out of remission but currently I’m in an active phase. I have a wonderful rheumatologist who began treating theContinue reading “Models Monday: One Approach to Paying Medical Bills”
Father’s Day Suite: Portraits of Men
What was most striking to me about the portrait that my son made in Play School as a Father’s Day gift for my husband was the green tie. Miles’s teacher had asked us to bring in a small picture of my husband that would be used for making a separate gift, and in that picture,Continue reading “Father’s Day Suite: Portraits of Men”
Models Monday: On Human Richness
My father was the one who first told me that David Halberstam was killed in a car accident. I don’t remember what we were talking about or which of Halberstam’s books I was reading at the time but when I referenced him, I clearly remember my father asking, “oh, the guy who died the otherContinue reading “Models Monday: On Human Richness”
Father’s Day Suite: Joe Paterno and Stories of Fatherhood
Fatherhood and fathering serve as strong themes in the narrative strand of the scandal surrounding former Penn State University football coach Jerry Sandusky’s trial where he stands accused of 52 counts of sexually abusing ten boys. Luke Dittrich writes a brilliant article about fatherhood and this scandal in the June/July 2012 issue of Esquire. Dittrich’sContinue reading “Father’s Day Suite: Joe Paterno and Stories of Fatherhood”
Jacob Philadelphia, President Obama, and the Barber
Jacob Philadelphia, the little boy who touches a bowing President Obama’s hair, is such an interesting child. He and his family were interviewed on Lawrence O’Donnell’s The Last Word and he pretty much stuck to his story about Obama’s hair: it felt the same as his own. The new detail regarding his fascination with PresidentContinue reading “Jacob Philadelphia, President Obama, and the Barber”
Models Monday: Summertime
When Toni Morrison and her son Slade set out to interpret “The Grasshopper and the Ants,” they were interested in the artist’s labor. Mother and son were interested in the fact that the grasshopper labors through his musicianship. His labor does not lead to him storing up provisions but it benefits the community who listensContinue reading “Models Monday: Summertime”
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