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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Fender Bender, I Am Sure

At the entrance to my street, there is a large house that was converted to a salon many years ago, complete with a parking lot. The salon has been there all of my thirty years. Even though the parking lot is large, an overflow of customers does park on the street in front of several neighbors'... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

When Are We Going to Teach?

George Jakubek and I were supposed to teach a mini lesson on Pietra Rivoli's The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of the World Trade. The lesson based off of a mouthful of a title was to be taught to our Methods of Teaching Social... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 9, 2016

Not the Only One Anymore

There was a time (before I was born) where my house was the only one on the street with a garage. My unattached garage was built with the house in 1955. For twenty-five years, having the only garage was the case. Then in 1980, Casimiro built his house with an attached garage, and other houses... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

When Everybody Stared at Me

There were two times at Loyola College when I had people staring at me as though I had two heads. Both of them were in Phil Ribiero's Methods of Teaching Social Studies and happened during political discussions. Phil Ribiero was doing an exercise where we talked in small groups. The War in Iraq came... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 2, 2016

The Avenue

There is an avenue in my neighborhood that connects four of the seven streets. The avenue could be extended to include the three southern streets it currently does not connect. The neighborhood overwhelmingly opposes it. At the northern end, the avenue is broken into two parts by a fence. On the... Sign in to see full entry.

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