May All Your Favorite Bands Stay Together
May 12, 2023
“We’re getting the band back together!” That was Jake and Elwood’s dream in The Blues Brothers Movie. Getting the band back together is a worthy dream. During my college years, while driving back and forth between Little Rock and Palo Alto, the Blues Brothers cassette kept me entertained and awake as I sang along with […]
Billy Mitch Chandler / Blues Brothers / Joe Bolter / Malibu High School / Netflix is a Joke / Playing for Change / Simon Dawes / The Band / The Weight
Remembrances of 9/11/2001
September 11, 2021
I love driving by the stunningly beautiful Pepperdine University campus, located on Pacific Coast Highway overlooking the Malibu coast, especially in early fall. Just 10 miles from my home, I passed it on my commute twice a day, every day, for about 17 years. The university’s close proximity was a key factor in the decision […]
9-11 / American Flag / Malibu High School / Manhattan Beach / Pat Matthews / Pepperdine
Taking My Youngest to College
August 18, 2021
That was it. Dawson gave each of us a long and hard hug, picked up the last bit of dorm room essentials from our double Target run, turned around, and walked off to his dorm in the Colorado School of Mines. Oredigger Camp – his three-day orientation – starts tomorrow. He is fired up and […]
College Freshmen / Colorado School of Mines / Empty Nest / Malibu High School
Ladybugs and Dogs( Reflections of School and Life in the Midst of COVID-19 (#9, April 25, 2020)
April 25, 2020
It may have been the most thoughtless senior prank I ever experienced. As a former high school principal, I don’t love senior pranks. Usually, very little thought goes into them, and they end up being destructive, damaging, or time consuming. Occasionally though — and I mean very occasionally — a group of seniors pulls off […]
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