Regrettably, for various personal, familial and professional reasons, I neglected this blog for the last year and a half. During that time span: (1) in an historic election, Barack Obama was elected President of the United States; (2) I led a group of high school students from my school on a trip to Washington DC where we “witnessed” Obama’s inauguration (from the far end of the Mall near the Washington Monument along with a throng of over a million others); (3) I left my teaching gig at the end of the 2008-2009 school year in an effort to move to a more financially lucrative job, (4) I’ve engaged in a thus far futile search for such a job, applying for over 50 positions in educational administration and law; (5) at the local level, a new mayor has taken office in Newton with appropriate assertiveness by cleaning house in certain departments and presenting an initial impression of much-needed decisiveness combined with understanding; and (5) U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy passed away and a special election was held for the approximately three years remaining on his term.
It has now been exactly one year since Obama’s inauguration and in that special U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, a stunning result has occurred – a Republican, Scott Brown, prevailed. This is clearly an opportune time for me to resume my postings of political musings. And I now vow to keep them coming without further interruption, no matter what transpires in my life, as a way to retain my own sanity and sense of purpose.
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