About Me
Steve Chisnell (um, on the right) is a teacher at Royal Oak (MI) High School. 
Welcome to Nepal
The bandh today brought the streets of Kathmandu to near silence. What yesterday was a caterwaul of sound—vans, trucks, thuk-thuks, motorcycles, and pedestrians mashed against the dusty streets beneath the chaotic tangle of electrical wires-by 7:00 this morning the...
On Being Lost
The following is an excerpt from a speech I gave at the ROHS National Honor Society induction ceremony. A hunter has been wandering through the woods, lost, thirsty, and desperate. Finally, we wanders into a small camp. "Thank goodness!" he cries, "I've been...
Velvet Memories
Fresh. Pure. Delicious. Made fresh daily in Detroit. Most of us don't think of the late 1960s as the Golden Age of the peanut butter sandwich. I do. It was a time when my grandmother would make sandwiches with Smucker's jelly and Velvet Peanut Butter. I don't know how...
On Daggits and Darfur, Obama and Adama
Truly, my first thought when I heard that the cast of Battlestar Galactica was debating at the real United Nations was that we've finally lost our sense of reality. And, on reflection, I admit I don't think I'm wrong. If you are not following all the latest news from...
Measuring Service
I've been wondering what I would write of Galveston five months after Hurricane Ike. Even now, thousands are without homes, many still without water, and electricity is just now starting to be restored on Bolivar peninsula. And so we took 64 students to help: they...
Wrong Number
"I haven't received any call back from you." I didn't know whose voice it was on my cell phone. All I knew was that she was an older woman staying in Florida and that she had called me at some point while I was teaching a Haruki Murakami novel today. Murakami's works...
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