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Loans With a Global Reach
Start-Up Aims To Facilitate Loans With a Global Reach D.C. Trio Hopes to Aid Poor, Rural Communities By Timothy Wilson Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 1, 2009 [Source] After…
Tricksters
We didn’t know he would be the Trickster refusing to appear when it was time The doctor would have to cut a door to coax him out Sure knew how…
Glide ’08
Glide ’08: Global Interaction in Design Education In 2008, I was the Master of Ceremonies for Glide ’08: Global Interaction in Design Education, an online conference presented by Rensselaer Polytechnic…
A Great Fall
“Quick, call the guards!” I heard one say. There was much twittering and womanly shouting as the crowd gathered to see me rumpled and twisted at the foot of the…
Bad Guys
The cell is cold. I sit on the bench nearest the narrow window, trying to absorb what little warmth filters through the frosted leaden glass. Waiting. The guard comes over…
Saratoga Native American Festival
In 2006 and 2007, while working as the Education Director at the Ndakinna Education Center (a non-profit cultural arts organization in Greenfield Center, NY), I had the opportunity to organize…
Romeo & Juliet
Hi R——, I was thinking about you tonight and thought I’d drop a line to say hello. I used to feel odd about how much I reminisce about the past,…
To skin a cat
1. Off the cliff to razor rocks 2. Table saw in Grandpa’s shop 3. Whirring silver blender blades 4. Skidding to a stop 5. Needle under furry nape 6. Blackberries…
Stained glass #1
A gift for my inlaws.
Teaching World Mythology
From 1998 to 2004, I taught English at Gloversville High School in Gloversville, NY. One of my favorite courses to teach was World Mythology, a senior English elective. I developed…
Fulcrum
My life has stretched across years now and sometimes I feel old not always the kind of old that belongs with wisdom and grace but often the kind that belongs…
A “Restorative” Hermeneutics of Myth
Updating the Map: Toward a “Restorative” Hermeneutics of Mythology Mark Oppenneer (2002) I have a picture in my mind of a worn and yellowed map. In the center of the…
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Epic of Gilgamesh: Origin, Subject and Function Mark Oppenneer (2002) The purpose of the essay is two-fold: it will explore The Epic of Gilgamesh by fielding what Robert A. Segal,…
Mystery
See also this piece.
Digger
What it does is dirty