by Trevor Barton | Jan 3, 2013 | Opinion
There is a wonderful documentary called “Beautiful Losers.” The 2008 film was created by filmmaker Aaron Rose and is about an underground, outsider, creative movement called the “beautiful losers” movement. It has interviews with Shepard...
by Trevor Barton | Dec 12, 2012 | Opinion
I learned from Marcus Boon, in his article “Spring Comes to New Jersey” in the October 2009 issue of The Sun magazine, that the word eccentric comes from a Greek word that describes objects in space that don’t revolve around the earth. Ancient Greeks...
by Trevor Barton | Nov 15, 2012 | Opinion
We were walking up the beach on the sand as the tide moved out toward the ocean. I was holding Zeke’s hand, talking with him about sea things. “I didn’t know jellyfish swam this close to the shore during the spring,” he said in 5-year-old...
by Trevor Barton | Oct 23, 2012 | Opinion
During my first year as a second-grade teacher, I struggled with classroom management. I am a soft-spoken person by nature and habit. I didn’t have the experience to help me set up great rules and procedures for my students. My classroom was noisy and chaotic. I...
by Trevor Barton | Oct 9, 2012 | Opinion
Editor’s note: The following prayer was shared by Trevor Barton at First Baptist Church in Greenville, S.C., on Sept. 30, 2012. Dear God, As my son, Zeke, says in his daily prayers, so I say in our prayer this morning, “Thank you for all of the good things...
