Pizza Ed
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Retired teacher of English and writing; now just a husband and author |
| Location | LOUISA, VA |
| Introduction | I spent the first 38 years of my life in New Jersey; it was a good place to grow up and learn how to survive. I participate in full-contact sarcasm, a quaint Jersey custom. I have been published as you can see on the blog. I have a wonderful and patient wife named Toni who has put up with me since the summer of 1964 when we met; we have a daughter Mary-Alice and a son Kenny and three road-orphaned cats. The dog died. I love the laughter of children, woodsmoke in the cold seasons, and pizza. I detest elitists, self-righteous people who want to tell others how to live, PC, and those who take themselves too seriously. As for teaching, it was a good 36 years, and I will miss the youthful faces that I've looked at for the past four decades, but there's a time when all good things must end and this is the time for me. If I never had the privilege of teaching you, let me pass on something for you to keep in mind, something an excellent teacher once shared with me: "Choices have consequences, so make wise choices." My favorite quote? "I'd rather be a 'has-been' than a 'coulda-been' who became a 'never-was.'" - Satchel Paige |
| Interests | writing, reading, gardening, traveling, hunting horseflies with my Red Ryder BB gun, swatting Republicans, laughing |
| Favorite movies | ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, VANISHING POINT (1969), WHERE EAGLES DARE...AND ON AND ON AND ON... |
| Favorite music | EAGLES, STONES, BEATLES, MOODY BLUES, JETHRO TULL, EARLY NEIL YOUNG, BILLY JOEL...and on and on and on... |
| Favorite books | ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, A SEPARATE PEACE, SUMMER OF '42, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, anything by NELSON DE MILLE, ROBERT B. PARKER, CARL HIAASEN, LARRY MC MURTRY, BILL BRYSON, PATRICK MC MANUS, ALISTAIR MACLEAN...and on and on and on... |