About Me
Steve Chisnell (um, on the right) is a teacher at Royal Oak (MI) High School. 
On the Devolution of the Fox
I know how it is. We post pics of our niece's crayon art to Pinterest, frame a purchased poster of Edward Munch's The Scream, and lament the loss of theimpending liquidation of the DIA. All the while, we casually and carelessly call each of these "art." If put to the...
American Road Trip 2: Missouri and Kansas
Corn corn corn corn. I knew the long haul across Kansas would be a challenge. So I started the morning off by being the first one to charge into the over-advertised Meramec Caverns. Truly, they are extensive, and I admit I've never seen such an impressive array of...
American Road Trip 2: Indiana and Illinois
Nothing necessarily insightful about these next few posts, but more an account of some of the highlights of my second American Road Trip. This time I will be taking two specific roads while traveling to Vegas and back: Route 50, called the "Loneliest Road in America,"...
StudyWikis: Hard-Earned Lessons
One of several posts on my old blog, From the Trenches, about the craft of teaching. Okay, I admit: I rushed into the Wiki business perhaps a little late for the rush of –pedia followers and a little early for my technical skills. Nevertheless, techno-literacy...
33 Prices Tags of Innocence
What has ignorance produced? A small sampling: Ignorance fishes bread from the toaster with a fork. Ignorance believes World Wrestling Entertainment is real. Ignorance says, "All we need to do is. . . . " Ignorance wears no condom. Ignorance chooses terrorism to kill...
Two If By Sea, and I On the Opposite Side Shall Be
I've been wanting to write for some time about the Sarah Palin-Paul Revere-Wikipedia controversy. You may remember the hoopla last June when former and potential presidential-candidate Palin, then on a historical America tour, was quoted in videos...
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