Don Pogreba is a current writer and retired teacher of English, Social Studies and Debate, and a loyal, if often sad, fan of the San Diego Padres and Portland Timbers. When he is not traveling, he is working on his classroom web site or dreaming about another adventure.
December 20 will always be one of those uncomfortable anniversaries for me: it’s the anniversary of the day that my father passed away. No matter how many years have passed, I’ll always wish that I could talk to my Dad just one more time today, but even with his absence, every year is an opportunity to take stock of my life and think...
An incredible medieval city, a capital city that blends a Soviet past with a Portland by way of Helsinki vibe, and the best bread I have ever eaten made this country an incredible stop.
A brief stop to see Bono, visit the museums of natural history and eat one of the three best hamburgers in my life. Not a bad few days.
Warsaw was an absolutely unexpected gem during my trip to Europe this past July. I can’t recommend the city enough.
A little visit to New England in October 2017, including stops at Acadia National Park, Lexington, and Concord.
The Dirty Secret of War: It Can Be As Compelling As It Is Ugly–“The Iliad accepts violence as a permanent factor in human life,” Knox continues, “and accepts it without sentimentality, for it is just as sentimental to pretend that war does not have its monstrous ugliness as it is to deny that it has its own strange and fatal beauty...
TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP BY THE OFFICE–Of all the drugs available, psychedelics have long been considered among the most powerful and dangerous. When Richard Nixon launched the “war on drugs” in the 1970s, the authorities claimed LSD caused people to jump out of windows and fried users’ brains. When Ronald Reagan was the governor of...
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