Chase March – Blog
Welcome to the sounding board for Chase March. Here you will find my various articles about a variety of topics (DJ Events and news, book reviews, skatepark tours, teaching-related articles and resources, and much more)
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Chance Encounter with Ember
It’s kind of strange how I first encountered the books of Ember. Near the end of the school year, I injured myself at the track and field event. I had to go to the hospital and I knew that I would probably be stuck in a waiting room for a while. I didn’t have much…
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Who Loads the Canon?
There seems to be some common consensus that it isn’t just the old and familiar books that can be heralded as classics. For example, Time Magazine rated the top 100 novels of our time and included the excellent graphic novel Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. I wholeheartedly agree that this book needs to…
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My Journal Has Been Reborn
By all rights, my journal should have died. I declared that it did last month and was fine with that decision. But it ultimately refuses to. This blog can’t replace it. I tried to have it do so but I failed. That’s because a journal serves an altogether different purpose. My fictional writing can’t relegate it to…
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Running Passed the Farms
I decided to go for a run out in the boonies. I was visiting a friend up in farm country and he told me of a trail not too far away from his house. So I took my camera, laced up my running shoes, and hit the road. Not all of the streets here have…
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Run-DMC autograph
This is my most prized autograph. It is from all three members of Run-DMC. Reverend Run, Daryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels and the late, great Jam Master Jay. You can see that they autographed the door poster for me. I have it framed with my original ticket in the bottom right hand corner. I wasn’t able to…
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Recommended Reads – The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist is an excellent book that I can’t say enough about. I first discovered it as an audio book when I used to have a long commute to work. There were some amazing passages in it that made me want to pull the car over and jot them down but I didn’t…