Genevieve Siegel-Hawley & Paul Fleisher 
A Friend in Need is a Man’s Best Dog [EPUB ebook] 
Selected Short Writings

     Humor

9 This I Believe

12 Lessons from Rats

15 The Teachings of Don Jones: A Yankee Way of Knowledge

27 Things Could Be Worse

32 The Rock Garden Gone to Seed

35 Seventeen More Reasons to End the Arms Race

39 Khomeini Ways Can You Say Ghotbzadeh?

43 A Dreadful Green Shade of Purple

51 Newly Discovered Work by Tolkien Published

53 So You Think You Have Tax Problems…

55 Two All-Beef Patties, Special Delivery

61 PBS Faces Reality

     Education

65 The Fun Subs Have

71 The Reading Teacher at Work: A Revealing Glimpse for Parents

76 May I Have Your Attention, Please

80 Scoring Our Schools

85 The Educational Assembly Line: The SOLs are Limiting our Children’s Education

90 The Myth of Our “Failing” Schools

94 Reading Your Rights: The Tangled Web of Special Education Bureaucracy

98 Teaching Evolution

104 Maggie Walker’s Diversity Complex—written with Genevieve Siegel-Hawley

108 Un-American

     Politics—The Arms Race and Other Campaigns

111 A Game Plan for Winning the Real Arms Race

116 Living In Glass Houses

120 It’s Time to Stop Bombing Nevada

125 Binary Weapons:  Reagan 1, Sanity 0

129 The Children Need to Know: Teaching About Nuclear War

135 Babes in Arms

140 Keep Your Fingers Crossed, Virginia

145 A Time to Remember, A Time to Act

149 Preserving the ABM Treaty

154 A Day in the Life

157 Pothole Economics

160 Restoring the Voting Rights of All Virginians

165 Why Not Raise Taxes on Those Who Can Afford It?

168 Armed and Unready

172 Why Loving Matter

     Verse

174

     Leftovers

The Herring are Running, The Herring are Running

194 Book Reviews

195 Rush Hour

200 All that Glitters

205 A Modest Proposal

209 Solid Fuel

214 Pulling the Plug

218 In the Aftermath of Isabelle 

Paul Fleisher taught elementary and middle school students 27 years in the
Richmond, Virginia Public Schools’ Program for the Gifted. He has written
dozens of books for young people and educators, including Brain Food and
Secrets of the Universe. His books The Big Bang and Parasites were both
named Best Science Trade Books by the National Science Teachers
Association.
In 1988 Paul received the Virginia Education Association’s Award for Peace
and International Relations; in 1999 he was honored with the Thomas
Jefferson Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Natural Science
Education. Since retiring in 2005, Paul has served on the staff of the
Richmond Peace Education Center. More details are available at
www.paulfleisher.com.