How a Movie Changed My Life

Reprinted from Heartland Journal, Summer 2005, No. 51, 7000 North Glenwood Ave., Chicago, Il, 60626; Paige James, Editor; Michael James and Kathleen Hogan, Publishers.
Last November, in a radio interview [WLUW 88.7, “Live From the Heartland] with Mike James of the Heartland Café in Rogers Park, Chicago, I mentioned that the Weather Underground documentary “changed my […]

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The Kids are All Right

This is the final draft of an article written for Harpers’ Magazine in the summer of 2005, accepted but never published. It is for a general audience.
Math Classroom, Fall, 2004
Somewhere very far away there’s an American war raging, but you wouldn’t know it in my classroom. Isolated even from the demands of their […]

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