My mom likes to tell a story about a letter she received from the state of California following her decision to keep me out of the public school system when I turned six years old, electing instead to become my teacher herself. She wrote to the education department requesting specific guidelines for keeping me on […]
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I’d started something I was pretending was a novel up in Denver, and I continued with it for a while. I’d been reading, or at least pretending to read, the “new novels” of Alain Robbe-Grillet, and catching the films of Antonioni and Bergman, so I was up to date on pretentious, intentionally obscure anti-narratives, and
I’ve never written a rhetorical analysis. Over the last decade of teaching composition at the community college level, a semester hasn’t passed without me assigning it to some poor group of souls, telling them, like they’re taking medicine, “You won’t like it, but it’s for your own good.” I lie. I’ll admit there is value
Susan Andrews was drawn to painting early on through her mother’s artistic endeavors, the natural world, and cinema. These influences have factored prominently in defining her style. She depicts animals in close personal terms that force the viewer to experience wildlife in its purest form. Susan is a graduate of Pikes Peak Community College. Currently, she’s working on a
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” John Muir A few months ago, I heard someone make a comment on getting older. They implied that as we get older, “we all reach a point when we realize there is nothing new for us to do, nothing new to discover.” I
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Going through an old file folder, I came upon a document that had somehow survived since the early 1970s. I only vaguely recall the circumstances surrounding its production. The Developmental Studies Department had gone on a retreat (the lingo back then for “paid vacation disguised as work”) to some rustic guest ranch somewhere out of