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I have been a teacher for over twenty years.  I have taught almost every secondary science from astronomy to comparative anatomy. My current assignment is at Reseda Science Magnet where I've taught AP Biology and Philosophy. I currently teach Honors and AP Chemistry and I am the coach of the Girls and Boys Tennis Teams.  My older daughter, Megan, is an English teacher at RHS and my younger daughter, Breanna, is currently a sophmore at Reseda.  My wife, Jan, to whom I've been married for 26 years is a nurse and Traditional Naturopath.   We attend Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and I've written two novels, Garments of Skin and Daughter of Abraham (shameless plug!) and I am working on a third. My passions are my wife and kids (of course), my faith, teaching, coaching, writing, science, philosophy, theology and a good sniffer of brandy.

 

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Alfonso Churchill

THEY laughed at me as “Prof. Moon,”        
As a boy in Spoon River, born with the thirst        
Of knowing about the stars.        
They jeered when I spoke of the lunar mountains,        
And the thrilling heat and cold,                
And the ebon valleys by silver peaks,        
And Spica quadrillions of miles away,        
And the littleness of man.        
But now that my grave is honored, friends,        
Let it not be because I taught          
The lore of the stars in Knox College,        
But rather for this: that through the stars        
I preached the greatness of man,        
Who is none the less a part of the scheme of things        
For the distance of Spica or the Spiral Nebulæ;        
Nor any the less a part of the question        
Of what the drama means.

Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950).  Spoon River Anthology.  1916.

 

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