A. J. Kohlhepp, Author at The Berkshire Edge

A. J. Kohlhepp

A.J. Kohlhepp teaches and coaches at Berkshire School. He is currently working on a history of urban squash in America.

Articles from A. J. Kohlhepp

FILM REVIEW: ‘Ophelia’ should resonate with a younger generation

In addition to this re-orientation toward the title character, the screenplay by Semi Chellas offers some interesting revisions of Shakespeare’s original.

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www.Don’tTredOnMe

Over the months of T.’s presidency, I have noted an ever increasing dearth of joy. It has gotten harder and harder to find. I see the lack of it to be not unlike a snow fog that has taken up permane

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Come to the table

Come to the table to know once again and again we are each other’s keepers.

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Life In the Berkshires

Berkshire Snow Day

"I'm on my way to Price Chopper, can I pick up anything for you?"

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Just another Day of Celebration: January 12, 2019

Five national celebrations on this one solitary winter’s day. Who knew?

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Of planners and promises: A New Year’s Day dilemma

To put it simply, many of us are so mired in the busy-ness of everyday life that we don’t, or can’t, look up long enough to assess what we do and when we do it and how effective we are in doing it

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How do you spell ‘compassion’?

I wish you a compassionate Hanukkah, Christmas, Diwali, Kwanzaa and Advent. I wish us all light.

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POEM: The Backwards Geese (from the gate outside South Egremont School)

as if time could run backwards at their beckoning; as if winter could recede from my fingers and the white gate swing wide, with the fall riot returning to the bracketing treelimbs, thence to

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There most certainly is a chill in the air. This chill is so pervasive and blowing from so many directions that our impulse is to bundle up, protect ourselves, cover our faces from this stinging wind.

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