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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 24/08/2026

Oh, that’s wonderful. I am SO HAPPY for the Very Hungry Caterpillar!

J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 07/08/2026

A good phone case feature would be miniature grappling hooks that pop out whenever the accelerometer detects that the phone is burrowing into the gap beside the seat cushions.

J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 04/08/2026

Ray Bradbury's classic science fiction short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" was published in 1950, and it took its title from a poem written in 1918. It's a solid Bradbury story, and I thought I should point out that today is the day on which it takes place. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

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There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 03/08/2026

The Demodex mites that live on our eyelashes don't just hang on and eat the sebum oil from our faces. They also boink, lay eggs, and hatch cute widdle babies. Their lifespan is only a few weeks, so if you have any favorite mites, you should say something nice to them while there's still time.

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 02/08/2026

Those about to teach, we salute you. You hold the future of civilization in your hands, and we are grateful for your service.

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 25/07/2026

“The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes — all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults." Peter Shaffer. Equus: A play in two acts. New York: Samuel French.

J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 05/07/2026

We watched Edward Yang's "Yi Yi" (2000) last night, and I wept of it, and now I am a different person.

Still frame from "Yi Yi." A young Taiwanese boy schoolboy in a black suit and tie is standing up in a room with numerous empty chairs behind him. He is holding a notebook, from which he is about to a read a poem at a funeral.

J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 13/06/2026

Liu Bolin. (2012). Boy and Girl with Line of Internet. Fiberglass. Artist site: liubolinstudio.com

Sculpture showing a female and male figure facing each other. They are standing nude with their arms beside them. Thousands of electronic cables are connecting them to each other, but otherwise they do not touch.

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 04/06/2026

I like them ALL but my favorite is Kent. It’s perfection.

J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 04/06/2026

Mangoes, for sure. And most any cheese.

J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 17/04/2026

Fans of #ThePitt who saw the season finale: 1. Make sure to wait for the credits scene. It will fix you. 2. I want to see a high school show like this, where a whole season is spent on a single school day.

Still frame from the season two finale of "The Pitt" showing two physicians speaking to each other in a busy emergency department. Their expression seems serious and they both look tired.

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 16/04/2026

I hope the encounter was peaceful!

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 15/04/2026

May the winds of change blow the whole world round.

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 10/04/2026

VanderMeer is being VanderMeer again, so buckle up.

J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 10/04/2026

Bloody HELL, man. These weirding walks with you make me shudder, and fill me with awe, and make me feel the meat of my body aching for the cinders it must become. That's a pretty cool feeling, and I thank you for it.

J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 08/04/2026

Again — only smart, educated, experienced, responsible, and compassionate people should be in charge of the most important things. I'm horrified that some people think this is a controversial opinion.

Comic book image of a woman looking out a window onto a city skyline while she is saying "What a stupid time to be alive."

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 03/04/2026

The ancient song of elements, the song whose words we remember too late, too late. The song we sing in whispers as we cut the beam, hold the nail, and raise the hammer.

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 28/02/2026

Gottfried Helnwein. (1998). "Epiphany III (Presentation at the Temple)." Oil and acrylic on canvas. Artist site: www.helnwein.com

Painting showing nine men wearing standing in a semicircle behind a table. The men are wearing suits typical of the early 20th century. They are all facing the viewer, and they all have disfigured faces that resemble wounds suffered by soldiers in World War I. One man is wearing a bandage that covers most of his face. A young girl lies on the table before them, her bare feet and legs handing over one edge. She is wearing a clean dress that has a ruffle. Her head is facing the viewer but her eyes are closed.

J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 31/01/2026

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. Science, Myth, & Value War, Revolution, and Morality Power, Violence, and the Individual Politics, Ecology, and Energy Modern Science Fiction

J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 12/01/2026

Today, the Presbyterian Church (USA) published this gentle lesson about the mighty power of faith.

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 02/01/2026

Well, okay. There's a lot here that is in line with grim reality but even so the Mouse will want a bit of workshopping. (1) Cutting out Ewoks might cut into merchandising. (2) The Scrote Vader thing is plainly awesome, but Reddit will see it as a redo of Snoke. (3) You're still freaking me out.

J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 02/01/2026

Not for the first time, but you're kind of freaking me out right now.

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 01/01/2026

I'm sure it does! Cooking for family is one of the most joyous sacraments of all.

J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 01/01/2026

Making the collards while standing in a kitchen in which the memories of my mother and my grandmothers are looking over my shoulder making polite but firm suggestions about getting all the stems and wondering if I'm using the right onions, and it makes me feel alive and blessed beyond words.

Photograph of 14 different kinds of collard leaves spread out on a plain surface.

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 24/12/2025

The light winds its way round our darkened world, and shows us all the path we must take to set aside our quarrels, to lay down our swords, to quench our anger, to forgive those wrongs done unto us. Come, friends, let us join the morning stars and sing together at last.

Night sky with a comet, probably Neowise. Photograph made in the summer of 2020 by Norbert L. Rühl.

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 16/12/2025

Thirty-three observations about life. (13/13) 32. Life involves both whispering and hollering, often to the same people. 33. Life is when you’re not looking.

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 16/12/2025

Thirty-three observations about life. (12/13) 30. Life is when the tag inside your shirt is scratchy but you ignore it. 31. Life is how it good it feels to come inside and stand by the fire during the winter and how good it feels to go outside and jump in the water during the summer.

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 16/12/2025

Thirty-three observations about life. (11/13) 28. Life knows what you did. 29. Life includes planets like this one where little bunny rabbits hop around in meadows that grow on rafts made of rock that are floating on giant pools of molten metal.

J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 16/12/2025

Thirty-three observations about life. (10/13) 26. Life is like a game of musical chairs but the chairs are made of papier-mâché and some of them are on fire a little. 27. Life picks up the “Hello My Name Is” sticker and writes its name in fancy script as if it’s happy to be there.

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 16/12/2025

Thirty-three observations about life. (9/13) 24. Life includes planets like this one where apes wear shoes and dig basements and fly in hot air balloons. 25. Life involves encouraging generation after generation of children to play “Hot Cross Buns” on plastic recorders.

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 16/12/2025

Thirty-three observations about life. (8/13) 21. Life involves soldiers standing post and either nothing happens or something happens. 22. Life borrows stuff from you and never intends to return it. 23. Life often involves poking the campfire with a really good stick.

J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 16/12/2025

Thirty-three observations about life. (7/13) 19. Life is a series of movies in which there is a close-up of some text we are supposed to read but it’s too small and too shaky and too fast and so to hell with it, whatever. 20. Life is waking up and doing stuff until we can go to sleep again.

J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 16/12/2025

Thirty-three observations about life. (6/13) 16. Life doesn’t rhyme but it just sort of vibes to the beat. 17. Life isn’t fair, and doesn’t pretend to be. 18. Life is trying to remember why people used to use so much ammonia and now hardly anyone even talks about ammonia anymore.

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J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD @jeffmccullers.com · 16/12/2025

Thirty-three observations about life. (5/13) 13. Life is a long process of moving laundry from one room to another until we die. 14. Life is a series of hugs and kisses of a bewildering range of kinds, types, and purposes. 15. Life involves long stretches of not saying anything.