Video: VUCast Commencement 2009: Watch the 40-year journey of one graduate

Video: VUCast Commencement 2009: Watch the 40-year journey of one graduate

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It's Been a Long Time Coming, But a Change Gonna Come

Please watch this wonderful segment from Vanderbilt University's News Network, produced by my great friend Emily Pearce, about how Taylor Stokes, the first black football player to come to Vanderbilt on an athletic scholarship, was unable to finish school because of the depression and isolation he experienced. Now, 40 years later, he received his degree.

http://www.youtube.com/vanderbilt

He would have a lot to talk about with Eddie Russell, the hero of my Mr Touchdown, wouldn't he?

Reading Update

Reading Update: Odd coincidence, just read The Magic Thief and Savvy, two top middle-grade novels, both fantasy, and both use this sort of off-putting style in places, of doubling words, like soggy boggy (Savvy) and black dark (Thief). It was most marked in Savvy and it took me a while to adjust to the style, but then I liked it. Read each in one day.

7. The Magic Thief, Sarah Prineas
6. Savvy, Ingrid Lawq
5. Coraline, Neil Gaiman
4-4.5 A Storm of Swords and A Feast for Crows, George RR Martin
2-3. A Game of Thrones, and A Clash of Kings, by George R.R. Martin, epic fantasy.
1. Jennie, The Romantic Years, the first volume of an old biography of Lady Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill's mother, an American.

Re-read.
8-23 All 16 books in Mazo de la Roche's Jalna series
1-7 Harry Potter, 1 through 7. Amazing how little I remembered of Deathly Hallows.