Kevin Graham
Destroy the mirrors!
All of my choices are, in some measure, a sum of history, not just my history, but of all history. Every moment I spend staring at myself...
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Kevin Graham
- Apr 18, 2016
- 4 min
Catch Jack!
“Compared to what?” are among the most frequent words I hear when presenting results to my surveys, and rightly so. In so many aspects of...
Kevin Graham
- Nov 4, 2015
- 7 min
Excuse me, eh?
I’m sorry… pardon me… excuse me, eh? I’m a Canadian going through an identity crisis. I’d like to say that this crisis has existed for...
Kevin Graham
- Oct 28, 2015
- 9 min
Insurgency in Education?
I’ve just finished reading “Knife Fights” (2014) by Lt. Col. John A. Nagl (retired). I’ll explain why I read this book, well outside my...
Kevin Graham
- Sep 21, 2015
- 7 min
Thanks for being my big sister!
Eulogy delivered at a memorial service in Simcoe Ontario on September 19, 2015 Before I begin, I’d like to share something my wife’s...
Kevin Graham
- May 4, 2015
- 4 min
Take only memories
Harford, Pennsylvania is a community consisting of maybe six streets, located just off Interstate 81, about halfway between Scranton and...
Kevin Graham
- Feb 27, 2015
- 7 min
Winter of discontent
The origins of do-it-yourself are the in origins of our species. No yellow pages, no fast food drive-thru, no accountants or doctors or...
Kevin Graham
- Dec 30, 2014
- 7 min
Nee-Gon-ee
Once upon a time, traveling across a desert, a circus train derailed, leaving the Bengal tiger’s cage door broken open. The tiger...
Kevin Graham
- Oct 22, 2014
- 9 min
Sum of the parts
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein You may find yourself wondering about this one. It’s...
Kevin Graham
- Aug 28, 2014
- 5 min
The games we play between our ears
I forgot to call my brother this week to congratulate him on his 60th birthday. Well, that’s what I tell myself. Did I really forget?...
Kevin Graham
- Apr 1, 2014
- 14 min
A mouth full of sand
Lewis Rothschild: People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they’ll listen to anyone who steps up...
Kevin Graham
- Feb 10, 2014
- 4 min
Has the great experiment run its course?
Our response to this question will be the struggle of the 21st century. Over the past 100 years, Western industrialized nations have been...
Kevin Graham
- Jan 17, 2014
- 9 min
Let's turn on the lights
A friend forwarded this one to me recently. I'd seen it before, but feel it bears on the point of discussion. At a fund-raising dinner...
Kevin Graham
- Dec 30, 2013
- 8 min
A chance to play
There's hockey… and then, there's hockey! I'm not particularly fit, not good with the puck, and not a great skater – but, I still play...
Kevin Graham
- Dec 20, 2013
- 8 min
Easy for her to say
Blame the leptins, I say… or rather, the absence of leptins. Once upon a long time ago, in moments of midnight susceptibility, I could...
Kevin Graham
- Dec 13, 2013
- 5 min
Nests of nests
Consider the primary relationship between two people, a man and a woman. No one who has ever been part of such a relationship could think...
Kevin Graham
- Dec 6, 2013
- 5 min
I belong to something...
A year ago, I blogged about a school where my surveys yielded anomalously high scores coming from Grade 8 students and from Grade 8...
Kevin Graham
- Nov 29, 2013
- 4 min
Multiple personality order
When a man finds himself on the simple, logical, and convincingly winning side of an argument with his wife, all is lost and the end is...
Kevin Graham
- Nov 22, 2013
- 7 min
A reasoned response?
My wife and I are in the midst of an interesting, educational, and highly entertaining conversation with our daughter. She'd like an...
Kevin Graham
- Nov 19, 2013
- 12 min
Bonnie Ann Graham (January 2, 1927 – Remembrance Day, 2013)
Forgive me, but while I regularly speak for hours without notes, that just isn't going to happen today. In the words of Clint Eastwood,...
Kevin Graham
- Nov 15, 2013
- 7 min
Scarcely visible threads
In the Autumn of 2002, my wife and I were traveling by car from a conference in San Antonio, Texas. Our plans were for a leisurely two...
Kevin Graham
- Nov 8, 2013
- 4 min
Myths and mythtakes
My father was the strongest man in the world. His forearms were Popeye's forearms. His legs were tree trunks. When he walked into a room,...
Kevin Graham
- Oct 18, 2013
- 2 min
Um… like… you know…
My daughter and I had a chat about her English and Drama classes en route to school this morning. Specifically, we talked about voice and...
Kevin Graham
- Oct 11, 2013
- 4 min
Something to say… more often
We never know when we say something, or write something, or do something, if it will resonate for anyone else. Most of the time, we will...
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