Something about “back to school” that feels like a new beginning even if you’ve so-called graduated from it all. Saturday, I joined a newly formed group called the Grassroots Education Project to assist Harriet Tubman Elementary get in shape for the first day of school – that’s today. Neither rain or stifling humidity could keep [...]
This is the one pilgrimage I planned during my stay in Boston in June – a visit to Concord, Massachusetts. Concord is the site of the first battle of the Revolutionary War. I’m so used to “Freedom Trails” meaning Underground Railroad stops around the Mason Dixon line and the mid-west. In New England, we’re talking [...]
Back in the 70s hey day D.C.’s McKinley High School was the school the musician types went to. McKinley had music lessons and a decent marching band. The theater and dance folks enrolled in an after-school program called Workshops for Careers in the Arts. They met in the student union at GWU, and a garage-type [...]
“In all seriousness, I come here not to dispute the suggestion that I haven’t yet achieved enough in my life. I come here to embrace it; to heartily concur; to affirm that one’s title, even a title like president, says very little about how well one’s life has been led — and that no matter [...]
