Retirement, Week 2: Driven to write about Boyle Heights protests
This isn’t going so well. I am having news withdrawal symptoms. I look at some of the Twitter feed and the email subscriptions I get every day and think them boring. But my fingers want to be on a keyboard, and there are ideas out there that need exploring. I’ve been fascinated by the Boyle […]
On the First Week of retirement…
On the first week of retirement my true love gave to me…. A list of all the things I hadn’t done around the house while using writing the EdWeek column as an excuse. Since I’ve been a workaholic for a long time, the list is long. Neighbor Arthur’s elm was brushing against the tile roof […]
Where in the world is @CTKerchner
Soon, maybe already, ‘On California’ will no longer be listed among the active blogs at EdWeek.org. It should be available in the archive at the bottom of their blog listing. I will be jotting things here at mindworkers.com and probably, because I can’t help myself, at other locations.
Using the ‘R’ Word
Last week I put ‘On California,’ my column at EdWeek.org on hiatus, maybe permanently. Retirement has always been a funny concept to me. I’ve failed at earlier attempts, but it’s time for an earnest try. Here’s what I wrote: I was 16 when I walked into the Barrington (Illinois) Courier-Review with the object of […]