Tag: Bridgewater
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The Day Kennedy was Shot
On the same day newscasters were asking ,”Where were you when Kennedy was assassinated,” a message arrived on Linked In asking, “Did you teach at B’water Elementary School 50 years ago?” What a student learned from me that day—
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Reunions, politics, and a liberal arts education, OR how I came to respect Republican classmates
I didn’t particularly want to attend the fifty-year reunion of my college class. I’d have to compete with truckers for an eight-by-fifteen foot space on Interstate 81. I would miss several mornings of doing the Chicago Tribune Sudoku while eating my bran cereal. Most distasteful of all, I’d have to spend thirty-six hours with Republicans.…
Nancy Werking Poling 