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.
This was the trip of the open road, no itinerary, and free discovery. Renting a camper from Happy Camper and Iceland’s liberal laws about open camping meant I could drive where I wanted and sleep when and wherever I felt tired. Some of the best moments of this trip were entirely unplanned, like unexpectedly arriving at the...
Chinatown Rocinante, from Travels with Charley Alcatraz Muir Woods Chinatown Light Chinatown Vesuvio Cafe Golden Gate Bridge Lighthouse on the road from Salinas Palace of Fine Arts Cable Car Timshel Palace of Fine Arts AT&T Park Little Italy/Chinatown Border AT&T Park The Mission Golden Gate Park Golden Gate San Francisco...
Banff was an incredible journey to the first place that made me wonder if Glacier National Park was the most beautiful spot in the world, which is saying something.
Famine Memorial Statue in Dublin Molly Malone Statue in Dublin Joyce Museum Guinness Tour Dublin Street Wicklow Way Cliffs of Mohr St. Stephen’s Green Statue Christchurch Cathedral Blarney Castle James Joyce First Guinness Christchurch Cathedral Dublin Castle Hurling National Semifinal Cliffs of Mohr
Among my favorite texts to teach every year in AP Literature is Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, which never fails to move me—and even occasionally has the same impact on teenagers who seem a bit more jaded than I am. I’ve had students weep in the last few moments of the play while we read it aloud, when Willy, the protagonist of the...
Monday Morning Mental Mix is a collection of articles I stumbled across during the preceding week, not necessarily articles written or published in the past seven days. It will generally be an eclectic collection of items that made it into my Diigo feed or onto Instapaper. If you have any great articles to share, please feel free to send...
It makes sense that an Orwellian proposal would involve some delightful double speak to accompany it. As Whitefish High School considers a proposal to conduct drug tests on all students involved in extra-curricular activities, the proposal’s defenders don’t want you to get the wrong idea: it’s not a violation of rights...
Roy Brown says he wants to adequately fund Montana schools…sometime. Not, of course, when he served in the Legislature, nor when his Party adopted an extremist agenda about education during the last Legislative session, nor during a time of large surpluses in state budgets. In fact, rather than advocate for more school funding, he...