Musings from McWeizee

(the blended married name my students favored)

scoutzen

scoutzen
Location
Boise, Idaho,
Birthday
May 27
Bio
I teach, therefore I am. I write, therefore I think (not to mention that it makes me feel less hypocritical teaching others how to write.....just editing all the time got old.) I am bicoastal in origin. I now live in the blue dot known as Boise in the red state known as Idaho. I fancy myself a radical centrist (albeit left leaning) in a polarized nation. I really just want everyone to get along, and sometimes this compromises my ability to know what I really think......which gives me another reason to write. I am an American of Irish, German, and English decent. I have twin half brothers of Native American decent who I've never met. I hope someday that may change, though it doesn't seem likely. Despite the fact that I can be way too serious, or because of it, I love to laugh. Sometimes, I even make other people laugh.

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Salon.com

George Bush once told us that he wanted to be a "uniter, not a divider."  It's obvious that Barack Obama wants to be the same in a culture whose divisions have reached fever pitch.  If a president can't unite us, maybe role models from our history can.

A television ad

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Safari informs me that self-made man and American icon Steve Jobs is dead. As my throat and ears throb with the first viral scratchings of the season, my eight-year-old son watches Tim Burton’s ‘The Nightmare before Christmas’ for the quillienth time.  I like this film.… Read full post »

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AUGUST 7, 2011 4:56PM

On Mary Richards and Teaching as a Women's Movement

About 10 years ago the age of 35, I realized that I had become a teacher in spite of myself, and although I had already been doing the job for ten years, I finally and wholeheartedly committed to the calling.

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