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It’s Really Happening.

October 5, 2017 / Stephen / Leave a comment

Good day, all! I'm celebrating another small victory, or perhaps large victory. A little more than one year ago, I set out to return to school and complete my degree with the ambition of continuing onwards to law school. Last weekend, I took my Law School Admission Test, or LSATs.  Three hours of problem solving … Continue reading It’s Really Happening.

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Back to School!

September 1, 2016 / Stephen / Leave a comment

Another school year begins! I'm excited and glad to be back this term. Work-life balance has kept me pretty busy over the summer; that and studying for my LSATs, which are now only a few weeks away. Im sitting here in a campus dining hall, in my mid-thirties, and remembering just how depressed, sad and … Continue reading Back to School!

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This photograph of Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad, taken in February 1865 by Mathew Brady. Also a March 1865 message from Abraham Lincoln to General Delafield requesting a map from the War Department as a gift for Tad.
Happy Fathers Day! 👨‍👧
Golden Hour on the Hudson near my house.
This hive of wild honeybees was found behind an abandoned house on the New Jersey side of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Also, I found the 1777 and 1792 estate accounts of my 7th and 6th great-grandfathers respectively who kept bees on their farmstead. Colonial uses for bees were numerous: honey was used as a sweetener but also for medicinal purposes; wax was used to make candles; the red stuff you see “dripping” down the siding is called propolis and is an excellent sealant.
If you haven’t seen it, the “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at the @metmuseum is an absolute must.
I wasn’t quite sure how I wanted to treat this dirt country road … 🤔
“Veritas numquam perit” (The truth never perishes) — Seneca
Click my linktr.ee followed by Linkin.bio for the full article. As a CEDA/NDT debater and a high school parliamentary debate coach, I cannot find thanks and praise enough for what competitive debate has done for me and my students.
“Immense, entirely itself,
This is the old eight square schoolhouse in Knowlton, New Jersey. The last remaining of its kind in the state.

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