TEN YEARS OF BLOGGING

 

3,654 Days

521 Weeks

120 Months

 

Total Blog Posts: 2,340

Total Page Views Since March 11, 2011: 1,865,000+

Total Page Views from the U.S.A.: 1.39 million

Total Page Views Outside of the U.S.A.: 475,000+

 

Yearly Average: 186,500

Daily Average: 510

 

2011: 27,602 (Daily Average: 93)

2012: 150,261 (Daily Average: 411)

2013: 311,281 (Daily Average: 853)

2014: 221,619 (Daily Average: 607)

2015: 174,027 (Daily Average: 477)

2016: 238,884 (Daily Average: 653)

2017: 192,632 (Daily Average: 528)

2018: 218,493 (Daily Average: 559)

2019: 125,618 (Daily Average: 344)

2020: 180,238 (Daily Average: 492)

 

Notable:

 

From Feb. 10, 2018 – Mar. 13, 2018 (31 Days), there were 50,000+ pageviews.

From Dec. 24, 2017 – Mar. 13, 2018 (79 Days), there were 100,000+ pageviews.

Most pageviews in one day: 5,801 (Mar. 14, 2018)

Most pageviews in one month: 50,751 (March 2018)

A Few Favorite Posts of Mine:

This Retired Teacher's Concerns (August 1, 2020)
…Until this country has a unified and coherent federal, state and local strategy; until the federal government increases its funding for health and safety for all schools across this nation; until there is federal funding for parents to assist with their at-home childcare and technology and federal funding to feed disadvantaged children; until business entrepreneurs and the Trump administration (and not the schools!) solve the false choice they have created for parents of school-age children—all schools and universities across this nation should open only on online this fall and not until this pandemic is totally under control! Furthermore, until the morons among us stop spreading misinformation and conspiracies because of their own gullibility and ignorance; until the Creons among us cease their stubbornness and spitefulness; until the pathological narcissists among us end their gas-lighting, this unabated coronavirus will continue to proliferate, and thousands of Americans will die. For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2020/08/this-retired-teachers-concerns.html
 

What Really Matters (January 6, 2020)
…What really matters is how we live our lives each day with or without a belief in God; that we accept one another's beliefs (or non-beliefs) as long as they do not advocate terrorism. What really matters is how we live with the most significant questions unanswered or unknowable; that we pursue a life based on logic, reason, critical thinking, justice, solidarity, intellectual honesty and life-long learning; that we live our lives peacefully and with tolerance and mutual respect, and with compassion and love for one another, and that we oppose hatred, racism, bigotry, subjugation, misogyny, xenophobia, hypocrisy and indifference... because "like a boil that can never be cured... but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured" (King), for we are responsible for what happens in our lives, and for what happens in the lives of others. For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2020/01/what-really-matters.html

America and Guns (February 19, 2018)
…Instead of gun control laws that will affect law-abiding responsible citizens who own reasonable self-defense weapons for protection and may conceal and carry those weapons; instead of more political party accusations and useless prayers for the victims, legislators should focus upon and address the causes of violent crimes: domestic white nationalism, racism, bigotry (power, hatred, revenge, anger, notoriety), religious fundamentalism, economic injustice, poverty, unemployment, gang activity, drug trafficking, inefficient law enforcement in high-crime areas, suicide, mental illness, media's perpetuation of fear, and Trump's demagoguery and xenophobia… For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2018/02/america-and-guns.html

The Continuing Demoralization of University and College Adjunct Faculty (November 1, 2017)
…There are no due process protections for adjunct faculty. There is no equal pay for equal work. There is no professional advancement. There is no equity in the lack of health insurance and retirement benefits available for adjunct faculty. There is little to no inclusion in the way higher education’s formal decision-making procedures and structures are made. Indeed, adjunct faculty are simply part-time contractors, “lecturers,” or non-essential “marginalized” hires who are disenfranchised from high-level governance and required to carry out most of the responsibilities of the full-time faculty (and sometimes at multiple institutions), but for less than one-fifth of the salary of the full-time faculty and without meaningful job security from one semester to another… For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-continuing-demoralization-of.html

To the Sponsors of House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment 18: An Unconstitutional Attempt to Amend the Pension Protection Clause (March 6, 2017)
…To anyone attempting to amend the Pension Protection Clause: my response to you is to read Article XIII, Section 5: “Pension and Retirement Rights” of the Illinois Constitution. Read Article 1, Section 16: “Ex Post Facto Laws and Impairing Contracts” of the Illinois Constitution. Read Article I, Section 15: “Right of Eminent Domain” (the Takings Clause) of the Illinois Constitution.  Read Article I, Section 2: “Due Process and Equal Protection” of the Illinois Constitution. Read Article 1, Section 10 of the United States Constitution: “No State shall… pass any… ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts…” Read Amendment V, Section 1 of the United States Constitution: “No person shall be... deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” Read Amendment XIV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution: “Due Process and Equal Protection.” To ignore the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and change laws that protect one group of people is to ignore due process and equal protection of the laws that guarantee contractual agreements as well. Finally, read the Illinois Supreme Court ruling… For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2017/03/to-sponsors-of-house-joint-resolution.html

Though it is the Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, we have a very different country “worth saving” today (November 19, 2014)
…We live in a country where breaking a constitutional contract with retirees and public employees is deemed morally and legally justifiable by legislative liars and thieves; where public employees and retirees are victims of plutocratic, concentrated economic privilege and power that accommodates and reinforces an enormous inequality of organizational resources for corporate self-seekers; where public schools are for sale; where public school teachers have been assaulted by a barrage of attacks on their autonomy, dignity and self-respect; where labor unions have lost political power and influence; where there is no pay equity or job security for college adjunct faculty, and where “memories of the university as a citadel of democratic learning have been replaced by a university eager to define itself largely as an adjunct of corporate power.”… For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2014/11/though-it-is-151st-anniversary-of.html

An Examination of the Illinois “Pension Protection Clause,” or What Part of These Words Do Some Politicians Not Understand? (July 13, 2014)
…If there is anything else, we might examine regarding the Pension Protection Clause and its relationship to a reality that reveals repeated attempts by the wealthy elite, their politicians and the media to steal constitutionally-guaranteed pension benefits and rights, perhaps we should also dispute the relentless attacks on the very intelligibility of the English language by these liars and thieves. We know the Pension Protection Clause is valid because it is understood to be a contractual right and guarantee that public employees have earned… For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2014/07/another-examination-of-illinois-pension.html

The Pension Protection Clause and the State of Illinois’ “Reserved Sovereign Powers” (June 12, 2014)
…The Illinois General Assembly does not possess "reserved sovereign powers" to diminish a constitutionally-protected pension. The state's chronic underfunding of its public pension systems for decades cannot warrant the impairment or diminishment of public employees' and retirees' pension benefits and rights… For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-contract-clause-and-state-of.html

Illinois Pension Reform: My address to members of the State Universities Annuitants Association (April 26, 2013)
…Instead of protecting public pension rights and benefits, which have a legal basis under Illinois State Law; instead of restructuring the state’s revenue base to pay for the state’s growth in expenditures and its recklessly-accumulated debts and obligations, current policymakers have chosen to diminish the public employees’ constitutional rights and their benefits, even though revenue restructuring and pension debt re-amortization are the best legal and moral solutions... For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2013/04/illinois-pension-reform-my-address-to.html

Illinois Pension Reform Is Without Legal and Moral Justification (May 29, 2012)
…What is at stake right now is not a potential adjudication of claims that public employees will have against policymakers who want changes to public employees’ benefits and rights, but to respect the public employees’ contractual and constitutional promises because they are legitimate rights and moral concerns not only for public employees, but for every citizen in Illinois: for any unwarranted act of stealing a person’s guaranteed rights and compensation will violate interests in morality and ethics and the basic principles of both the State and United States Constitutions that protect every one of us… For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2012/05/sb-1673-is-without-legal-and-moral.html

Reflections on a Philosophy of Teaching and Learning (March 11, 2011)
…With a fundamental commitment to human rights, founded on philosophical principles and ideals, I challenge my students—through literature, philosophy, history, psychology, poetry and science, and through their own writing—to pursue a life based on logic, reason, critical thinking, selflessness, compassion, empathy, humility, integrity, dignity, political and social justice, responsibility, self-restraint, mutual respect, and life-long learning… For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-my-classroom-students-learn-that-i.html