by Steve Chisnell | 20 April 2008 | ChizBlog, Mythology
Eris, the Goddess of Discord, throws the apple into the hall of the gods, labeled kalliste, “to the fairest.” And so begin the arguments of Helen’s fidelity, Achilles’ hubris, and Odysseus’ loss. All of Western literature is beset first by discord, by imbalance, and... 
by Steve Chisnell | 21 February 2008 | ChizBlog, Service
Over the last week or so I’ve been thinking about what I wanted to write of New Orleans. Thirty months following the storm, over 4000 homes are still untouched. FEMA trailers are toxic. The media has all but quit talking about it. Brad Pitt builds a few show homes... 
by Steve Chisnell | 2 February 2008 | ChizBlog, Philosophy
Maybe I’m in the mood to vent—but why should I? It’s not like our world is full of the ridiculous, packed with the absurd, stuffed with the ludicrous. It’s not like I can’t make sense of the planet. As I tell me Lit. of the Western World students, existentialists... 
by Steve Chisnell | 21 January 2008 | ChizBlog, Travel
If Iceland were to be pulled apart, it might happen at Þingvellir, the crux of the European and American tectonic plates, the divide of the world. Here Iceland stretches, at the rate of about 1” per year, dropping the bottom of valley about half that distance. Oddly,... 
by Steve Chisnell | 20 January 2008 | ChizBlog, Travel
We left the Blue Lagoon geothermal pools to meet the most vicious wind I have ever encountered. Truly I felt that my cheeks were being carved by ice—we could hide nowhere, find nothing to block it. It sliced through ears and clothes, sealed our nostrils and froze our... 
Steve Chisnell (um, on the right) is a teacher at Royal Oak (MI) High School. 
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