Stop complimenting students
In a a piece entitled How to Talk to Little Girls, Lisa Bloom writes: Teaching girls that their appearance is the first thing you notice tells them that looks are more important…
Near death is a gift. If you survive, of course.
Steve Jobs' third story is the one that means the most to me. And he’s right. It is the way in which I live my life. Sadly, I become more…
Watership Down’s Hazel is a glorious but sadly unrealistic nonconformist
The protagonist of Watership Down is a rabbit named Hazel. Undersized and lacking in strength and speed, he nevertheless leads the rabbits from the doomed Sandleford warren to safety and…
Your title sucks, and your ideas about food are sexist and condescending
My wife came home with this book today: The Sneaky Chef: How to Cheat On Your Man (in the Kitchen): Hiding Healthy Foods in Hearty Meals Any Guy Will Love!…
Clothing adds at least five pounds.
I found this in my closet this morning. Apparently my daughter is bestowing concerns about weight and body mass index upon her toys. She’s growing up so fast.
Tilly and the Wall: Who needs a drummer when you have tap shoes?
I often claim (with excessive pride) that I have introduced my wife to more positive things in her life than she has introduced to me. Television shows, friends, activities, locales.…
Ready for fifth grade
My wife and my daughter were in the car behind a motorcycle rider without a helmet. My wife was explaining to Clara how dangerous it is to ride on a…
Extreme teaching, including home invasion and theft
An article in the Wall Street Journal entitled School Reform, Chicago Style described a school district’s policy of providing habitually tardy and absentee students with a wake-up call each morning.…
Kissing tiny feet
Each night, as she listens to my wife read to her, I lift my daughter’s tiny feet from my wife’s lap and kiss them. She smiles at me. Sometimes she…
Everything dies. I get it.
The relatively young, previously healthy tree in my front yard appears to be dying for no discernible reason while the identical tree about twenty feet to the left is perfectly…
