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For all of the usual boring reasons, I've decided to take a hiatus from blogging. I don't know how long the break will be, but I do know that right now I would rather be outside, riding my bike, working in the yard, and spending time with my family rather than hunched over a computer, searching for links.
Have a nice Summer, everyone (except for those of you in the Southern Hemisphere)!
-Mr. Bali Hai
It's not every day that you get e-mails from 3 different people that you haven't seen in over 25 years, but that's exactly what happened to me yesterday.
I put the Missing Persons link up on my sidebar last year, and waited patiently for people to find it via googling on themselves. Well, it paid off in spades on Monday morning when my best gal-pal from high school, Tatyana, dropped me a line. I haven't seen or spoken to her since 1979, so I was thrilled, of course. She's an English teacher and a published poet, living in semi-retirement.
Through her I located another former colleague from the school newspaper, Chris, who's been teaching Creative Writing for the past 18 years, and is an award-winning poet.
Finally, I got back in touch with Tory Paisley, founding member of Flipside magazine and guitarist for Low Budget, who's a Doctor of Musicology these days, currently teaching his little dumplings all about, you guessed it, punk rock! I'd say he's uniquely qualified to expound on that subject.
It's also interesting to note that all 4 of us wound up as educators of one sort or another, and at least 3 of us are also published authors and/or poets. I imagine that Tory, with a doctorate degree under his belt, has had a few papers published as well.
Our former newstaff advisor would be proud of us all, I'm sure. So Ms. Joanne Kropacek, here's to you, wherever you may be tonight!