Gurus and Geeks

Gurus and Geeks

[First published in the Real Estate Magazine, April 1998, revised 2016]   I obtained the following definitions from the American Heritage Dictionary: GEEK:  A carnival performer whose act usually consists of biting the head off a live chicken or snake. GURU:  A...
What A Teacher Can Do

What A Teacher Can Do

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour William Blake, Auguries of Innocence Pierce High School in Arbuckle, California is not the kind of place you would expect a young boy to...
Fire !

Fire !

A typical winter day: cold, clear, calm, quiet.  I walked downstairs from the bedroom in the house next to the restaurant, the historic Jacob Stauer House.   In the kitchen below, I looked out the window into the garden behind the Inn.  There wasn’t much left of the...