About Phil

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Scenes from Korea--June and July 2008

Exchanging thoughts with friends; reading; writing; public speaking; hiking; listening to unpopular music; biking; politics; philosophy; linguistics; gathering educationally valuable personal stories from anyone who'll share them; gathering quotations and humor from diverse sources.

Favorite TV Shows:

None.

Favorite Movies:

 

"Das Leben der Anderen" (The Lives of Others); "Z"; Midnight Run; Tootsie; Hero; Babel; Casablanca; Bridges of Toko-Ri; "High School"; North by Northwest; all the Pink Panther films; Woman in the Dunes; Twelve Angry Men; Inherit the Wind; House of Sand and Fog.

Other Activities I Like:

Teaching college communications courses and corporate workshops; writing columns for newspapers; trying to support and learn from my wonderful wife and two wonderful daughters.

Favorite Books:

 

All kinds of nonfiction--especially about history, science, philosophy, politics, religion, math, education, human relations, communications, business, and sports. Also short stories, particularly those with surprises and oddities in them.

 

Favorite Quotations:

 

"The good is always the enemy of the better"; "Make no small plans"; "Though not to be compared with the ineffable bliss we demand, as an alternative to nothingness a case for existence can be made"; "At any moment you're either alive or dead. If you're alive, try to make the best of the situation."

 

More About Me:

 

I've been fortunate enough to be a child and an American for 59 years, an educator for 35 years, a husband for 32 years, and a father for 21 years. I'm trying to be the best human being I can and to be as good and kind to others as possible.