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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. -- Marge Piercy, For the young who want to in The Moon Is Always Female. Take an ax to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now. -- Rumi, Quietness |
Lynn Johnston writes: I have always wondered what it is that makes boys and men want to run around shooting each other, when a really good, moderated argument would resolve almost anything. My thinking is: If women ruled the world, we’d get the politics over with expediently, thereby saving the civilian population, then do our [...]
From Lynn Johnston: I had some wonderful, insightful and compassionate teachers. The dialogue you see here is almost word for word from a conversation I had with Mr. Stibbs in grade four. He told me that yes, he did pick on me and yes, he did single me out in the class – and that [...]
I know that this is just a cartoon, but Lynn Johnston was real long before reality TV. I have students like Michael and sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference between non-linear thinkers and obnoxious brats. I wish there were a magic good-kid detector, but there isn’t. I assume, until brutally proven otherwise, that [...]
That is if the educational system doesn’t panic, drop the ball and turn the poor kid into a loss.
From yesterday… To today… And tomorrow? To all my wonderful readers, A couple of weeks ago I drew and sent the last two weeks of dailies, bringing to a close the main storyline of FBorFW. It sure wasn”t easy! I think the drawings were harder to do than the writing, because I”d been thinking about [...]
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