Well, it has been a very busy week at school – the summative week with my beloved 1st semester classes. I truly mean it – I have adored my classes this semester. So this week has been both stressful and emotional. …
Author Archives: thehunni
Never Stop Learning
The Moment of Truth
I’m From …
A kid-ridden lower middle-class street ending at a long-grassed, beaver-havened swamp.
I’m from wander-lusted forest floor hideouts of endless summer play in the wild, uncouth land;
Escaping into our daily wonderland of wooden bark homes and muddied decaying leafy floors,
Taunted by bears and moose above the escarpment, beyond the creek.
Graduating Class of 2012 – My Toast to the Students
It is such an honour to be asked by a graduating group to be the teacher, among such incredible teachers, who gets to give the speech at the Grad dinner. I thank you for thinking of me.
So, my dear graduating class of 2012 – you and I have travelled quite the road together that has been fraught with peril and wonder. …
This I Believe – To Work with Passion
Passage Explication for To Kill a Mockingbird – Chapter 1
QUOTATION EXCERPT from To Kill a Mockingbird:
The Radley Place jutted into a sharp curve beyond our house. Walking south, one faced its porch; the sidewalk turned and ran beside the lot. The house was low, was once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate-gray yard around it.…
Australia – the film
This is a piece I wrote a few years ago after seeing the film AUSTRALIA. Last night I watched it again and decided to post this piece.
AUSTRALIA – “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
~A Personal Response~
Every once in a long while comes an epic film that completely sweeps me off my feet.…
Disillusioned Feminism
I have spent the better part of my life being keenly aware and proud of the feminist movement. My mother was a hard-working nurse throughout my childhood, and my grandmother also was a widowed working woman for an insurance company, once owned by my deceased grandfather; their example and wisdom taught me much about the feminist movement for rights and liberty.
Inspired and lonely – the collision!
It seems that when inspiration collides head-long into loneliness and self-doubt – I find myself lofting into the great unknown. The last serious life-changing collision was in the Spring of 2002 – where I met my husband in an online dating service after a lonely Easter weekend. …