I was reading this moving and cool article at the St. Louis Post Dispatch at stltoday.com. The gist of it is that people have been reclaiming empty lots in urban settings to help addicts and ex-convicts reclaim a sense of self- worth, vocation, and identity. The group who set this up is Gateway Greening, “nonprofit [...]

I promised I’d post my slides for the UMSL presentation about Confucian Cardinal Relationships and Values in Shonen Anime.So, here you go: The HTML Version The PDF Version I used Keynote 2008, and printed to PDF and HTML directly from the application. I wanted to include the audio and video of the clips I showed, [...]

I got up this morning with Harold Melvin’s “Wake Up Everybody” in my head. There was a PSA when I was growing up in NYC the ’80s encouraging people to become teachers and mentors to others that used the first few verses of this song. It made an impression and stuck in my head all [...]