A New Look!
As you are most likely noticing, Dog Canyon is sporting a new look. As Dog Canyon has grown and changed over the past year, our audience has grown as has our pack of writers. To better reflect the diverse content you will find on Dog Canyon, we have changed its format. You can now find multiple articles featured on Dog Canyon on the home page. We hope it inspires you to do some hunting through the more than 600 pieces and learn something new about the world.
As with most things online, change is the only constant. You can expect the site to continue to morph and change as we get used to our new skin and as we reflect the feedback we get from our audience.
Please feel free to share your thoughts, ideas and suggestion with us. We care what you think.
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The Dog Canyon PackThe Dog Canyon Pack
- Tom Block
- Rita Nakashima Brock
- Joe Brewer
- Hayden Childs
- Christine Cox
- Cyndi Hughes
- Dr. Gregory Jackson
- Mary Lowry
- James C. Moore
- Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton
- Turk Pipkin
- Reba Saxon
- Glenn W. Smith
- Genevieve Van Cleve
- Joe Cutbirth
- George Lakoff
- Dave Grossman
- Derek Carroll
- Catherine Avril Morris
- Steve Birmingham
- Keesha Davis
- Dawn Erin
- Dorothy Harrigan
Rotten Wingnuts in an Age of Miracles
By Rita Nakashima Brock | Posted on September 2, 2010 | 1 CommentThe current Geller-Palin-Gingrich-Beck-Fox-Tea Party syndicate, funded by the third richest family in the U.S., takes wingnuttery to a whole new level. They believe ordinary Muslim Americans (5 million of them) do not exist, because 19 terrorists from Al-Qaeda (maybe 10,000 of them) attacked us in the name of a fundamentalist form of Islam.
There Will NOT Be a Test
By Reba Saxon | Posted on August 31, 2010 | 2 Comments...there was, at one time, a set basket of knowledge that schools would provide and if you went to all of those classes, you were educated. In the past twenty years or so, the amount of information has ramped up so much and the rate at which it multiplies has grown exponentially, now there is no way anyone could settle on a group of facts to provide that would hold you in good stead in the future. So what we do is teach you how to learn. We cannot know what you will need to learn, but we can teach you how to think, how to solve problems, how to research to find answers, and how to communicate what you need and what you know with others. Algebra is a way to think, a way to solve problems by recognizing equations. Problems that may not even have numbers in them. They may have words, in which case we call it logic. So if A equals B, and if I add C to A, I have to add C or something very like it to B to achieve the same result.
Possible Arson and the Right’s Houston Voter Suppression Effort
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on August 30, 2010 | 10 CommentsA mysterious fire last Friday destroys all of the voting machines in Harris County (Houston), Texas. Arson investigators have not yet issued an opinion. Meanwhile, a well-funded right-wing group emerges in Houston and begins raising unfounded allegations of widespread voter fraud. A video on their...
Interview with Oscar Nominated Screenwriter/Director Oren Moverman
By Mary Lowry
Screenwriter Oren Moverman made his directorial debut with THE MESSENGER (2009), a film about an injured Iraq War veteran who returns home to find he has been assigned...
I’m a Joiner
By Catherine Avril Morris
In one scene in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing, Baby (Jennifer Grey’s character) is about to go meet dashing, dangerous Johnny (played by the dear, departed Patrick Swayze), but she...
Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs—Your New Favorite Band
By Keesha Davis
You may not have heard of Star Anna yet, but you will. And if you have and have been fortunate enough to see them live, you know how damn lucky...
Adventures of a Young Man: That Time in Cuba
By James C. Moore
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain Our delegation was supposed to be about culture and history but nobody ever went to Cuba without a political...
The Right To Education
By Turk Pipkin
It’s been just under a year since I wrote a story for DogCanyon on The Right to Clean Water bemoaning the massive number of kids in the world whose lives...
Evangeline, the Oil Spill and Highway 61
By Glenn W. Smith
I was 18, skinny, out of money and in New Orleans for the first time after some Appalachian adventures and a visit to Nixon’s D.C. I faked a cocky walk...
Elliott Smith: Somebody That I Used to Know
By Mary Lowry
When I have a little melancholy that I need to feel, I listen to Elliott Smith (1969–2003).
The Rise (or Fall) of the Clarksville’s Last Holdout Corner Lot
By Mary Lowry
When I was four years old and first moved to Clarksville, a couple of teachers would’ve most likely been able to afford a mortgage on a small house in...
Magical Night Burnout
By Mary Lowry
When I worked as a forest firefighter on the Pike Hotshot Crew, we lit backfires to stop the main fire in its tracks. We often did these “burnouts” during...
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Haiku Friday: Boll Weevil | By Mary Lowry
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My Morning Light: a short story about Paris & Revenge. Part 4. | By Mary Lowry
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Elliott Smith: Somebody That I Used to Know | By Mary Lowry
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Rotten Wingnuts in an Age of Miracles | By Rita Nakashima Brock
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The Rise (or Fall) of the Clarksville’s Last Holdout Corner Lot | By Mary Lowry
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There Will NOT Be a Test | By Reba Saxon
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Magical Night Burnout | By Mary Lowry
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Possible Arson and the Right’s Houston Voter Suppression Effort | By Glenn W. Smith
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My Morning Light: A Short Story about Paris & Revenge. Part 3. | By Mary Lowry
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Truth about Teaching | By Reba Saxon
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