Blog
Various ventures into Mr. Scott’s mind.
Voznesenie bylo Gospodnee
Chess
As I am the sponsor of the Hughes chess club, it's fairly obvious that I love chess. I try to share that love with everyone, including my four-year-old son. Right now, we're working on learning how...
Happy Thanksgiving 2016
Logic Football
Election Soundtrack
Chopin's "Etude in E minor, Op. 25 No. 5" -- in some ways, a very fitting soundtrack to today's election. At the start, a little bumpy and a bit discordant. In the end, beautiful. No, don't take...
Doorbell
Let's just make it a White Stripe weekend.
White Stripes
Back when you were in kindergarten, I thought this was a fantastic song. Now that you're in eighth grade, I still think it's a fantastic song.
John Fullbright
The most talented young musician currently working today is a young man from Oklahoma named John Fullbright. He writes music that's mature and self-assured, and his lyrics sound like he has at least...
Krauss Sings Simon
Krauss and Plant
What I'm listening to as I grade your short story projects...
"Zol Milosci" ("Love's Regret") by Zakopower.
A Trip to Zab
One of my favorite bike rides while I lived in Poland was a trip to Zab, which means "tooth." The ride began in the small village in which I lived and climbed to the highest village in Poland, Zab....
Philip Levine
Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.
Homework
My wife snapped this picture of me grading articles of the week yesterday morning. See, I have homework, too.