<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post113473641055753381..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113507953897724805</id><published>2005-12-20T06:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-20T06:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I had a somewhat different experience which might ...</title><summary type='text'>I had a somewhat different experience which might be of interest. it is not a personal experience of my own early education [which most mostly presided over by emotionally stunted intelectual non-entities called &quot;nuns&quot; and &quot;priests&quot;.] But I taught for a while at a redbrick zero place called SUNY-Cortland in upstate NY. I had a sophomore intro to poetry class that was wonderful. Bright charming </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113507953897724805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113507953897724805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html?showComment=1135079520000#c113507953897724805' title=''/><author><name>steveintaipei</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113473641055753381' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113473641055753381' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113501884651097200</id><published>2005-12-19T14:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-19T14:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Benjamin,I have in fact exchanged emails with Phil...</title><summary type='text'>Benjamin,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I have in fact exchanged emails with Phil in the past week to offer my condolences. I&#39;m sorry that I live on the East Coast these days, but I&#39;ll take a moment on Monday afternoon to think of your mom. She was a great lady. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113501884651097200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113501884651097200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html?showComment=1135018800000#c113501884651097200' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113473641055753381' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113473641055753381' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113500933934115764</id><published>2005-12-19T11:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-19T11:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr. Silliman,I don&#39;t know you personally, but I wo...</title><summary type='text'>Mr. Silliman,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t know you personally, but I would like to thank you for your wonderful post about my mother, Audrey Elwood.  It&#39;s been so gratifying to hear from people like yourself who learned from her, as I believe we all did, and were able to use some of those lessons in different contexts.  Listening to stories like the one you tell here, I start to feel like she and Phil were </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113500933934115764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113500933934115764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html?showComment=1135009320000#c113500933934115764' title=''/><author><name>Clovis</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09757316799982223184</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113473641055753381' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113473641055753381' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1444473721"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113482770827606442</id><published>2005-12-17T08:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-17T08:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hat-tips to Luanne Oberholtzer! (poetry teacher at...</title><summary type='text'>Hat-tips to Luanne Oberholtzer! (poetry teacher at Pacific Ackworth Friends&#39; School, Temple City, Calif. in the mid-1960s)....&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I feel I had some little interaction with Phil Elwood, but can&#39;t seem to recall what it was.  I guess he wrote a music column in the SF Examiner, no?  Perhaps I sent him a note &amp; he replied, something like that (those sorts of things did happen even in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113482770827606442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113482770827606442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html?showComment=1134827700000#c113482770827606442' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113473641055753381' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113473641055753381' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113476701164290611</id><published>2005-12-16T16:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-16T16:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>To Miss Littlepage, wherever you are...</title><summary type='text'>To Miss Littlepage, wherever you are...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113476701164290611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113476701164290611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html?showComment=1134766980000#c113476701164290611' title=''/><author><name>shann</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14067576860660881139</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113473641055753381' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113473641055753381' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1505930166"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113475642309217367</id><published>2005-12-16T13:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-16T13:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;It&#39;s a commonplace that every great American writ...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;It&#39;s a commonplace that every great American writer had a significant high school English teacher who inspired them. In my case...&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That&#39;s the way!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113475642309217367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113475642309217367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html?showComment=1134756420000#c113475642309217367' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113473641055753381' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113473641055753381' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113475334433233347</id><published>2005-12-16T12:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-16T12:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yeah, it was the Surf. It&#39;s visible in the opening...</title><summary type='text'>Yeah, it was the Surf. It&#39;s visible in the opening scenes of Woody Allen&#39;s Play It Again, Sam. First film I saw there was (dig it!) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. Once you get hooked on the hard stuff, there&#39;s no going back.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113475334433233347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113475334433233347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html?showComment=1134753300000#c113475334433233347' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113473641055753381' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113473641055753381' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113475222654619318</id><published>2005-12-16T11:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-16T11:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Being a high school English teacher, this is a fan...</title><summary type='text'>Being a high school English teacher, this is a fantastic post that reminds me why I teach.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;For me, it was a 10th grade Latin teacher (Mr. Glavin) at a boarding school here in Massachusetts who had us translating from a Latin version of The Odyssey. I now realize that those impossibly difficult translation assignments were one of my first moments of being aware of how one can shape words.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113475222654619318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113475222654619318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html?showComment=1134752220000#c113475222654619318' title=''/><author><name>GJPW</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13383940105241352465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113473641055753381' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113473641055753381' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-669631030"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113475109075200673</id><published>2005-12-16T11:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-16T11:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mine was my tenth grade Napa High school English t...</title><summary type='text'>Mine was my tenth grade Napa High school English teacher Richard Mancillas.  He was a first generation Hispanic who had grown up in San Francisco in the 1940&#39;s.  He had five children, and taught Spanish as well as coaching the football team.  I wrote my first real essays, poems and a playlet for his class.  I was reading Tropic of Cancer, Irrational Man (by William Barrett), Studs Lonigan, and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113475109075200673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113475109075200673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html?showComment=1134751080000#c113475109075200673' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113473641055753381' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113473641055753381' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113474987802071328</id><published>2005-12-16T11:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-16T11:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>And some of us had the likes of Enid Van Ryper, ga...</title><summary type='text'>And some of us had the likes of Enid Van Ryper, gagga over &quot;To a Waterfowl&quot; and prissily declaiming EBB--as the back-row crowd crowed--&quot;How do I screw thee--let me copulate the ways..&quot;  Miss Enid who replaced &quot;rubber bands&quot; with &quot;shifting sands&quot; in the only poem I wrote till I discovered that Olson&#39;s Kingfisher gorged on (&amp; then disgorged) that waterfowl.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113474987802071328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113474987802071328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html?showComment=1134749820000#c113474987802071328' title=''/><author><name>myshkin2</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12334340208396536106</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113473641055753381' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113473641055753381' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-16179833"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113473833051753263</id><published>2005-12-16T08:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-16T08:05:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>My Luck was to have Harriet Baker as my 4th grade ...</title><summary type='text'>My Luck was to have Harriet Baker as my 4th grade teacher at Goleta Union Elementary School in 1967, who informed us &quot;the creative person sees not only how things differ, but how they are alike&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113473833051753263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113473641055753381/comments/default/113473833051753263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html?showComment=1134738300000#c113473833051753263' title=''/><author><name>chris</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11068391526111662520</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/tip-of-mouse-to-very-first-creative.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113473641055753381' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113473641055753381' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1320777018"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 16, 2005"/></entry></feed>