: About Me

After a brief stint in the Army, as a saxophone player, I went to college at the Universtiy of Texas in Austin, and received a Bachelors of Liberal Arts in English.

My passion is ...

thinking

I know too much about ...

Star Wars

My parents always told me ...

not to let anything obstruct my path

My childhood ambition ...

Tattoo artist

My favorite memory ...

has to be phone conversations with Dan Powell

Why I write ...

to get all the thoughts out of my head

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Franny and Zooey...again, a biography on Thomas Jefferson and Chilton's Truck & Van Service Manual 2000

My first job ...

Grocery bagger

My best moment ...

I'm still waiting for that one

My inspiration ...

Vintage American writers and Emerson

Education > Teachers & Administrators How American schools fail our children

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Blaming teachers is like throwing fire balls into Dante's Inferno. Over and over the scapegoat of this argument is that there are too many bad teachers. Sure it's easy to dime out the men and women of education as slothen, can't-doers (people that can't do teach) but let's look at a couple other issues that might effect failure. The demands of a teachers grades K-12 not only reside with the interest of the student, but their parents, and for many therein lays the problem. Soccer moms and NASCAR dads who actively take an interest in little Dick and Jane's state-mandated indoctrination spell...

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