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A Past That Lies Before Me: A University Professor’s memoir/exposé of being arrested, entangled in the criminal justice system, loss, jail, and unexpected blessings
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Passage from A Past That Lies Before Me
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Do not pay anyone evil for evil.
Romans 12:17
I arrived home after work one evening to a visual riot of flashing lights in the parking lot of my small apartment building. Inside my one-bedroom unit, the sour smell of stale vomit filled the air. Police paused and firemen fussed with their equipment as my poor cat cowered in her closet redoubt. The air mattress that Carl and his wife, Donna, h Read more of this blog post »
Do not pay anyone evil for evil.
Romans 12:17
I arrived home after work one evening to a visual riot of flashing lights in the parking lot of my small apartment building. Inside my one-bedroom unit, the sour smell of stale vomit filled the air. Police paused and firemen fussed with their equipment as my poor cat cowered in her closet redoubt. The air mattress that Carl and his wife, Donna, h Read more of this blog post »
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This is an excerpt from my memoir, A Past That Lies Before Me. In it, I make a rather controversial claim that goes against conventional wisdom: I say
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This was Buckley's first book and it launched him into the pantheon of Conservative thinkers. He wrote it as a very recent graduate of Yale. The tome criticizes Yale for monolithic group think of a liberal kind. And it was written decades ago! He desc ...more |
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If you like good food and like to cook. This is a winner. It especially wins if you like Mediterranean food: fish, pasta, olives, dates, spices, lamb, etc. The cooking is very doable for Americans, except that sometimes spices, like sumac, can be a bi ...more |
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| This is an important book for folks who want to understand the racial divide in school success. McWhorter uses a LOT of research to dissect the roots of why black kids perform less well in public schools compared to white and Asian kids. His research ...more | |
“This quote is from Oscar Wilde's short book, De Profundis, and from which I got the title for my book: "What lies before me is my past. I have got to make myself look at that with different eyes, to make the world look on it with different eyes, to make God look on it with different eyes. This cannot be done by ignoring it, or slighting it, or praising it, or denying it. It is only done fully by accepting it as an inevitable part of the evolution of my life and character.”
― A Past That Lies Before Me: A University Professor’s memoir/exposé of being arrested, entangled in the criminal justice system, loss, jail, and unexpected blessings
― A Past That Lies Before Me: A University Professor’s memoir/exposé of being arrested, entangled in the criminal justice system, loss, jail, and unexpected blessings
“This quote is from Oscar Wilde's short book, De Profundis, and from which I got the title for my book: "What lies before me is my past. I have got to make myself look at that with different eyes, to make the world look on it with different eyes, to make God look on it with different eyes. This cannot be done by ignoring it, or slighting it, or praising it, or denying it. It is only done fully by accepting it as an inevitable part of the evolution of my life and character.”
― A Past That Lies Before Me: A University Professor’s memoir/exposé of being arrested, entangled in the criminal justice system, loss, jail, and unexpected blessings
― A Past That Lies Before Me: A University Professor’s memoir/exposé of being arrested, entangled in the criminal justice system, loss, jail, and unexpected blessings
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