Category Archives: School

“He will either be rich or in prison.”

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Terry Taylor

Now and then I go over to the VCU Brand Center to remind myself what if feels like to just be starting out in my chosen profession. Wednesday was one of those days. Mark Fenske invited me to share some … Continue reading →

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Flunking Health 101

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Terry Taylor

If you recall, there was a time when schools taught home ec and there was this odd activity called physical education, or at least recess where somebody threw a dodge ball at your head and you had to run and … Continue reading →

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Lying On the Field

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Speaking of credibility: I love college football. Always have. But there are parts of it that chew at me. This is one of them:  When a student athlete transfers to another program (for whatever reason), that athlete is punished by … Continue reading →

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Shop Class Blues

Posted on June 17, 2009 by Terry Taylor

With Richmond motorcycle repairman (University of Chicago Ph.D.) Matthew Crawford’s new book, Shop Class as Soul Craft: An Inquiry Into The Value of Work, I am rethinking my shop class experiences from high school. I’ve spent my life in a … Continue reading →

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Their Prom. Our Prom.

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Tuxes, gowns, flowers and limos mix with music, dancing and hangovers. Across the South, teenagers are proming this time of year. Something else is going on as well: old school segregation. George Wallace would be proud.

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Smell the Relief

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Terry Taylor

I had a Charlie horse. That is what old school football curmudgeons called everything from a sprain to a compound fracture. If they saw no bone protruding from the skin, it was a Charlie horse. “Rub it down,” said the … Continue reading →

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Drunk and Dressed To The Hilt

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Terry Taylor

I went to a Southern university where proper ladies and gentlemen of culture wore suits, ties and sundresses to football games on Saturday. Since I was neither proper nor cultured and wouldn’t recognize a lady or a gentleman if they … Continue reading →

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Genetic Biscuits

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Terry Taylor

Biscuits and cigarettes killed my grandfather (in that order). I lost my first tooth eating a biscuit. I know at least four ways to make biscuits and fifty ways to know when someone has done that job wrong. A wrong … Continue reading →

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Tripod

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Terry Taylor

He was a white-looking, bullish-looking dog. I can’t honestly say he was a white bulldog. He was a muscled dog with a flat face and a worried look. He had a right, he had three legs and no home except … Continue reading →

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Rammer Jammer

Posted on November 3, 2006 by Terry Taylor

Ingrained in the many football traditions of the University of Alabama are these odd words: “Rammer Jammer, Yellow Hammer. Give ‘em Hell, Alabama!” coined by the once-respected university literary and humor magazine of the same name. Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Harper … Continue reading →

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