An audio recording by Doug Storm of a selection from Letters from an American Farmer by Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur. — from Letters from an Amercian Farmer–from Letter III. (duration approximately 11 minutes) What is an…
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from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
An audio recording by Doug Storm of selections of The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin. (duration approximately 18 minutes) from Leaving Boston from Arrival in Philadelphia from Arriving at Moral Perfection *** from Leaving Boston At…
The Gift of the Magi
An audio recording by Douglas Storm of O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi.” THE GIFT OF THE MAGI (Gutenberg) One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in…
Emerson on Education Reform
An audio recording of this excerpt from “New England Reformers” by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1844) read by Douglas Storm. The same insatiable criticism may be traced in the efforts for the reform of Education. The…
Christmas Ain’t Never
Here’s a Christmas song for which I co-wrote the lyrics with my friend Eric The dose of Viagra Has been reported for 31 patients: 26 had used doses of 50 mg,Patients usually do not volunteer…
The Lords of Limit
The following poem by Emerson sits as introduction to his essay “Experience.” This is the piece of writing in which he shockingly says, Grief too will make us idealists. In the death of my son…
Examining the Beats
For Eric and the forthcoming teacher-student collaborative blog: “The Monkey-Rope.” From The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) The novel ends in a figuration that is so well-known that I thought it would interesting…
Listening to Literature, or Hearing Hard Words
I believe I’ve said somewhere else that I really only discovered a “fecundity” of thinking in myself* when I started listening to audiobooks while walking. You know how you need to justify reading to yourself…
Thou Vain Toy
For Bobby C., underlinings from an essay by Morse Peckham, “Man’s Use of Nature,” offering powder and ball to my NO! in thunder. And, perhaps as expected, Ahab will have the last word. *** An…
Evolving To Heavenly Host
This morning a friend shared a link with me regarding the “good” of science spending as measured against the “evil” of suffering (“With all the suffering…“). Basically, why spend money on “exploration” when so many…