Notes from Around the Block- Olive the trees have olives
- Wanda Hickey and the Frog Pond
- A recently discovered DNA thread: forwarding news articles
- A Bride in Blue
- The Gates to a President’s Hell: Water and the IRS
- Marriage in Oxymoronica
- The Present Moment
- If your life were a book
- From the mouths of old babes
- The Atlanta Teachers’ Onion, then and now
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
The Mid-State Fair
by cheri block The Judge and I attended the Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles, California this past weekend. What a dandy experience. Paso Robles sits half-way between the Beautiful Queen San Francisco and the Urban Dude King, Los Angeles. The … Continue reading
I’m giving you a referral, you little twit
by cheri block Please note: Part 1 of “What’s wrong with California Public Education?” I walked by Stanford’s School of Education on Monday afternoon on my way to a class called The Politics of Humanitarianism. Cynically. I stopped at Coupa … Continue reading
Posted in Education, My fiction
Tagged California public education, Kafka, Stanford School of Education
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Pallas Athena and her olive trees
by cheri block We know the Greek goddess Athena for her wisdom and courage. Owls, snakes, and olive trees are just three of the symbols that represent her. How appropriate, then, that the Judge’s olive orchard became a reality on … Continue reading
