Posts Tagged ‘mark tullis’
White noise | Mark’s Remarks
I’m pretty late to the game on a lot of stuff. I had heard people talking about noise machines and how they used “white noise” while they worked or…
Read MoreMoving back home | Mark’s Remarks
While I was in college, I lived in my own apartment. By the time I got to college, I had already been to junior college for a couple of years…
Read More‘Asteroid City’ | Movie Review
Having seen five Wes Anderson films in the past 10 years, I can tell you I continue to hope, each time, that I will figure it all out. I sit…
Read MoreThe benefits of shutting up | Mark’s Remarks
Back in school, there were very few days that I didn’t get in trouble for talking too much. I’m pretty sure my teachers mentioned that I visited too much in…
Read MoreCheese! | Mark’s Remarks
I think we put enormous pressure on ourselves as parents. Would you agree? I blame Facebook. I blame society. I blame misguided priorities. Somewhere along the line, people started…
Read MoreThe Great Bus Tirade | Mark’s Remarks
When I start thinking about how disrespectful and silly kids can be at school, and when I get to the almost nth degree of crazy, I think the Lord whispers…
Read MoreA year of goodbyes? | Mark’s Remarks
When you read this, I will have completed my 33rd year of teaching. Maybe not a big deal to you, but dang. Time seems to have gone by at…
Read MoreThe Little Mermaid | Movie Review
After leaving the theater, I heard the phrase “I didn’t have high expectations” from reviewer after reviewer. Indeed, I would guess many of us felt the same way. After all,…
Read MoreCarol Burnett’s birthday | Mark’s Remarks
I was born in 1967, the same year Carol Burnett’s television show went on the air. So you could say I sort of grew up watching her. I remember being…
Read MoreLay off | Mark’s Remarks
I was having a great conversation with a group of folks the other day. Some were retired and some were close to retiring. The truths spoken at this meeting…
Read MoreThe belch heard ‘round the world | Mark’s Remarks
Our hospital in my hometown of Fairfield has been around for a long time. It was always a mysterious building to me when I was little, mostly because I was…
Read MoreTop 9 at 9 | Mark’s Remarks
My hometown of Fairfield has a radio station called WFIW, which has been in our community since the early 1950s. At one time, it had local announcers who actually…
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