Mark O'Neill
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Buttered Toast Rocks
- I'm doing well, thanks!
- In Search of a Title
- Is this the middle?
- Life . . . Minute by Minute
- Lily&Life&Stuff
- Lynda Grace An Hour Away
- Mark's Work
- Masked Mom
- My Life in Contradictions
- Noel's Bell Springs Apple Farm
- River of Time
- Seeking the Balance
- TEK's Travels
- The Hummingbird's Disdain
- The view from up here
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Retired middle school teacher/writer. |
| Location | Bell Springs, CA, United States |
| Introduction | I am a retired middle school, language arts teacher, living on Bell Springs Road, in Northern California. I started writing in March of 2011, and began this blog in July, 2011. A few Marches ago I was diagnosed with mood spectrum disorder, what old schoolers call being bipolar. I am profoundly perturbed by the fraudulent election of a clown as our President. I will continue to fight against social injustice, brought on by the greed of the 1% in our country who control the wealth, and our spineless, selfish elected leaders. |
| Interests | Writing, communicating, music, ROTR, gardening, SF Giants Baseball, politics, stamp collecting, bridge, jigsaw puzzles, who-done-its, ganja, gatherings, reading, Ireland, walking, woodworking, cooking |
| Favorite Movies | Groundhog Day, Stand and Deliver, Some Kind of Wonderful, Breakfast Club, The Quiet Man, Remember the Titans, What About Bob? Leo's Romeo and Juliet, Any thing Christmasy, Platoon, GWTW, Lonesome Dove, Purple Rain, Bridge on the River Kwai, Great Escape, Godfathers I & II, M*A*S*H*, Boyz 'n the Hood, The Sting, Mutiny on the Bounty, Home for the Holidays-Robert Downey Jr., Straight Outta Compton |
| Favorite Music | Kesha, Vampire Weekend, Coleman Hell, Odesza, Kennedy, Thomas Jack, Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs; Walter Meego, The Shins, MGMT, Major Lazer, Mike Snow, Dirty Heads, Fortunate Youth, Stick Figure, Stephen Marley, Kiso, Naxxos, Kid Cudi, 21 Pilots, Modest Mouse, Empire of the Sun |
| Favorite Books | Prince and the Pauper, Swiss Family Robinson, Little Men, Milagro Beanfield War, Watership Down. Anything by: Reginald Hill, John Sanford, Elizabeth George, Dick Francis, Tony Hillerman, Sue Grafton, Nelson Demille, Grishom, John Irving, Thomas Perry, Charles Dickens, Larry McMurtry, Emile Zola, Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Nikos Kazantzakis, Heinlein, Shakespeare, Hobbit/Trilogy |
Your hand has been replaced by a rubber stamp. What does it say?
No Fear. Not any more. Not now-not ever.