Category: From the Soul

I don’t know if we’ve ever been able, in our society, to truly talk and listen to each other but,…

With all that I’ve had to say lately and in the somewhat distant past about the need for a more loving world where diversity is appreciated, I’ve tried to point out, perhaps indirectly, that schools should be places that model how our world could be. I’m a proponent of Ethnic Studies for that very reason: they promote the building of a better world.

I’ve broached such notions of love because it is my duty as an educator to open minds to ideal possibilities. If nothing else is required of a teacher he or she should be a loving human being who is willing to reach out to a diverse collection of humanity.

Regarding the rigmarole concerning the banning of “Ethnic Studies” in Arizona it seems that it’s pretty much “Chicano” in nature,…

Over the last few months , I wrote a couple of articles  about a whirlwind trip I took to Tucson, my hometown,…

I’ll remember the scene for as long as I live, as it was so gratifying to look upon all those…

I see before me photographs of a sprinkling of my wife’s ashes soaking in the sand along the shore in…

I was a nine year old about 63 and a half years ago, growing up around Speedway and Stone in…

San Diego has company coming to town this weekend, about 10,000 librarians. My kind of people. I mean I just…

I hadn’t written anything for a while and decided, in a spirit of fun, to check into “www.creativewritingprompts.com” and craft…

Portraying a runaway slave
I chose
to just let go
and let the character
unfold
naturally,
looking at him
somewhat literally
as me, …

Some time ago, the University of Arizona asked its Alumni: “What does being a Wildcat for life mean to you?”…

November 30th of 2010 was a good day. In many a way. First of all, from the beginning, the day…