John E. Riutta
From the monthly archives: July 2011
The other day, after reading and hearing far too much about the shenanigans in our nation’s capital, I found myself out behind our house with a knife in one hand and a stick in the other. Now before you think that I had picked up these items in preparation for a very poorly equipped insurrection, I should tell you that I was simply doing something that I hadn’t done for years. I was whittling on a stick.
Continue Reading →Through a strange twist of fate I recently found myself in the middle of a large gardening industry trade show where I, to my utter amazement, came face to face with the reality of one of our nation’s largest illegal cash crops: Cannabis
Continue Reading →While many (including yours truly), in a fit of being fed-up with business, politics, or the world in general, often fall back upon the famous line from the 1976 movie “Network,” “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” to express their feelings, I have recently switched to a different cinematic reference I order to better convey how I feel about the pig-headed debt ceiling impasse in which our alleged leaders in Washington now find themselves.
Continue Reading →There is a basic logic to the idea that a person’s job performance should be judged by its outcome. However as a former classroom teacher, I know all too well just how different some key aspects of teaching are from just about every other job.
Continue Reading →
