Joplin Ahead
The following is a republishing of my blog post from The Royal Oak Patch on June 18, 2011. Local Voices Interact's trip to Joplin, Missouri, will be a unique and powerful experience for us! On Sunday we leave for our fifth disaster relief trip with National Relief...
Cuba Bound
From: 900 thousand children die every month because of poverty: not one of them is Cuban. 200 million children in the world sleep on the streets today. None of them is Cuban. 250 million children under 13 have to work in order to survive. None of them is Cuban....
On Thor, Tsunamis, and Daikaiju
In just a few weeks, Hollywood will release the latest in its parade of superhero films, Thor. As the trailer suggests, there is a returning thunder hammer, a Loki trickster figure and, in the Marvel superhero universe, references to other superheroes and Stan Lee....
Tumblr Collage
A Collection of assorted imagery from my old Quick Slices blog:
Bronner’s Disease
From: As she walked by, she said, “I have to get out of here before my eyes start to bleed.” I was already dizzy. Disorientation was setting in as one more mirror of starbursts yielded to another room of them. I knew I had passed Section 8 before, but was no...
Opportunity and Anxiety
As I write this, Hosni Mubarak's resignation video plays on YouTube. It's a surreal idea, imagining somehow that I can recline on my sofa with a laptop and witness an historic moment of regime change from a major US ally. And since I am watching it virtually as a...
Steve Chisnell (um, on the right) is a teacher at Royal Oak (MI) High School.
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