I am sitting in a hotel lobby in Lisbon on the last day of a seven month trip...
I am sitting in a hotel lobby in Lisbon on the last day of a seven month trip...
In our travels through the Balkans it has become increasingly clear that...
I guess I could start nearly every blog post with “What strange times we live...
As the “Monster Trip”, which started in February, 2025 continues, we’ve...
I hate calling them “former” students, because some of them stay in...
We left Rome a week ago as part of what has been dubbed “The Monster...
We all need to be a little more woke. The evidence is everywhere. When...
Here’s a bulletin. Life can be hard sometimes. Obviously,...
Some of the great pleasures of teaching for nearly twenty years derive from...
You’d have to be one racist son-of-a-bitch to say something like this:: ...
by Mark Pontoni on January 27, 2025 in National
Some of the great pleasures of teaching for nearly twenty years derive from former students and their willingness to stay in touch and ask questions related to past classroom experiences. They remember some things we did, and they continue to find them relevant today. It helps me know that what we do in the classroom […]
by Mark Pontoni on January 21, 2025 in National
You’d have to be one racist son-of-a-bitch to say something like this:: “And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.” And yet, on January 20, 2025, the racist we elected president said just that. For some reason we still have […]