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Letter to SchoolLess #4: A Sense of Where You Are
On Hearing and Listening to Voices and Finding Your Own
"These months are not a blip but a beginning."Read More
October 31, 2014
Letters to SchoolLess
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Alexander Pope, author, beheadings, Bill Bradley, Brooklyn, Bush Election, Charles Baxter, David Foster Wallace, Death of Ivan Ilych, Dr. Dray, Dubow, ebola, Emerson, finding your own voice, Goldilocks Principle, homeschool, Interlochen, Jason, John McPhee New Yorker, Lamenting Mathematician, mountain school, Red Sox World Series, Renee Zellwegger, sense, SHSAT, Writer
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
On Irony, Optimism, Perfection, & Relative Sanity
“The thrum of the heavy, pulsing downbeat, an affect to which I am susceptible, began to feel to me as I imagine a hit of heroin feels to an addict: calming, insistent, essential, and ultimately insufficient.”
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June 8, 2012
I Believe
A Good Man is Hard to Find, agony, Amtrak, Blackout, Brooklyn, Charles Baxter, ecstasy, Family, Flannery O'Conner, homeschool, homeschool blog, irony, memory, Mets, Mitch Levenberg, Mr. Blonde, music, music school, On Writing and Not, optimism, Raymond Carver, Reservoir Dogs, Saint Francis College, Steve Wynn