The Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier

Second day of class. Like each of the students, Claire came into the classroom, went over to the blackboard, and completed the sentence, “I am….” Soon as each of us–myself included–come into the classroom we go to the blackboard and complete the sentence with a true expression of how we feel. It allows me and [...]

A wonderful and “chancey” good morning. I was walking this pre-dawn morning in what seemed like nature’s soup de jour. The warm, heavy humidity that has left a salty, sticky residue all over my body, however, couldn’t dampen my spirits. I read in Sunday’s NY Times someone calling these August days the coda of summer. [...]