The Maroon Vol. 2… No. 77 Monday, October 3, 2022
“Bringing us all to a place we don't want to lose."
Observer: When I'm 64
Macky’s New York: The W Is For Woman
William Peay: Tales From The Wood…
RHS Tired Teens: Later School Start Times
M + A NYC: Mighty Are We As One
In Memory Of Our Classmates & Teachers: Photographs & Memories
Jim Schoneman: Rock Hound
Siobhan Crann Winograd: Around The Village
Kathy & Ross Petras: You’re Saying It Wrong
Observer
When I’m 64
“I am what survives me.” —Erik Erikson
Midlife is the stage in Life when we hopefully come to realize that fixating on a topic means you’re likely postponing decisions for no good reason.
Currently, the Ridgewood Board of Education (BOE) is debating eliminating 51 seconds per class period at Ridgewood High School in order to start school at 8:30AM. This is the Later School Start Time (LSST) debate.
Frankly, I’m worried the Ridgewood Board Of Education (BOE) is thinking too hard on this subject. They have 12 years of their own research. At their last meeting a Trustee lambasted their outside consultants for not offering them more suggestions. Another Trustee went as far as to infer that 12 years of data was a good starting point!
What’s sad about this protracted debate, aside from the BOE Trustees’s posturing, is that there are so many other topics worthy of BOE time and expertise. For instance, the suggestion by Acting Superintendent Dr. Leonard Fitts regarding the formation of an Olympic & Paralympic Training Center. This is an idea commensurate with our capacity to wonder, and the type of unifying purpose at the heart of enlightened and well run public educational systems.
I suggest the BOE make up their minds on LSST before any of us get any older. Time is something in short supply and watching them waste it on a webcast is a sorry legacy for any group of well-intentioned parents.
Macky’s New York
Matthew Cortellesi Photography
September 15, 2022 - Astoria.
The W Is For Woman
Had a great late lunch with my old friend George and and few of his Greek buddies at my Stimatis on 23rd Avenue and as I slowly drifted off to sleep on the W train heading back to Manhattan...I look up as we pull outnof the station and the redlection of woman sitting across from me was so pronounced in the shadows of the passing landscape...that I took this just before we pulled into Broadway station.
Show on the W train sitting on the south side looking north.
Time 4:40pm
William Peay
Tales From The Wood…
Crest Road
RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame
Save The Date: November 5, 2022
Visit The RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame & Order Tickets for 2022 Inductees Banquet
Digital Printing for the RHS Hall of Fame provided by Tim Boucher, RHS 1988
RHS Tired Teens
Later School Start Times
M + A NYC
Mighty Are We As One
In Memory Of Our Classmates & Teachers
Photographs & Memories
In Memory Of Our RHS Classmates
Jim Schoneman
Rock Hound
The winding road to Northport, WI, and the Washington Island Ferry. Maybe the most photographed spot on the entire Door peninsula. Peak fall colors should be here in a week or so.
Siobhan Crann Winograd
Around The Village
Attention Ridgewood Voters! Mark your calendars: Wednesday, October 19, 2022.
Kathy & Ross Petras
You’re Saying It Wrong
baited breath / bated breath
“One would hope it’s when you wait with baited breath or expect a photo of someone’s child that common sense would kick in.” —TMZ.COM
Use the phrase “baiter breath” and you are fishing for truoble. (Sorry for that dreadful pun. We can’t worm our way out of it.)
It’s bated. It has noting to do with bait, hook, fish, or anything like that. The bate in baited breath came about in the fourteenth century when the word abate was shortened by aphesis (when a word loses its first unstressed vowel.) So abate (to lessen)became bate and was used as such through the1800s. It’s no longer in use much at all, except in the phrase bated breath—a phrase often used when someone is so afffected by emotion, like awe or terror, that his breath gets short.
That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means: The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories
Ross & Kathy’s podcast: