Tag Archives: high school

Book Review: Overtime: A Basketball Parable

Here is the second review of my new novel to go up on amazon.com:   If you played or spent much time around high school athletics, you will find this book to be a thoughtful and satisfying meditation in a setting as familiar … Continue reading

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Saturday Evening Post (LOL), May 30, 2015

. It’s officially summer, my favorite season ever since the days when that meant escape from the classroom. Some of my best memories are of the relaxed, unstructured time that was afforded me in those Junes, Julys and Augusts. But … Continue reading

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The School Library, Part 2

The School Library, Part 2 The other thing that I found that one could do in the library on those early mornings was this: nothing. One could cross his arms before him on the table and rest his head and … Continue reading

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Morning Post: February 12, 2015

The School Library, Part 2 The other thing that I found that one could do in the library on those early mornings was this: nothing.  One could cross his arms before him on the table and rest his head and … Continue reading

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Noonday Post, February 11, 2015

THE SCHOOL LIBRARY The whole idea of a study hall was foriegn to me.  To actually have an hour in the schoolday where you were not being lectured or writing or taking a test.  To have an hour unsupervised where … Continue reading

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Stealing Time, Stealing Beauty

The best days of summer were after school had started.  I knew this and no one else did.  While the other kids were wrapped up in football and band and decorating for the fall dances – all those things that … Continue reading

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