Happy Halloween!
My two kids, ready for trick-or-treating tonight! Clara is a fairy princess, and Charlie is Max from Where the Wild Things Are, in a costume that my wife made specifically…
I admire this violent, malicious man.
On a good day, former New England Patriots and current Washington Redskins safety Brandon Meriweather is a hard-nosed, hard hitting football player. Those days seem few and far between. More…
Ending the engagement is sometimes the only correct choice
A question recently asked of Slate’s Dear Prudence: Q. Always Take the Wife's Side?: I'm about to get married and am caught in an argument between my fiancée and my…
Beyond the Margins today!
I have a piece in Beyond the Margins today about the unexpected (and almost unbelievable) benefits of publishing novels. Enjoy!
I don’t like Wes Anderson’s films
There. I said it. This trailer explains my dislike perfectly. Every trope that’s used in this spoof is every reason why I don’t like his films.
Lionel Shriver needed to take better inventory before she lamented the tragedy of her career in The New Republic.
Bestselling author Lionel Shriver has been criticized this week for a piece she wrote in The New Republic in which she complains about the amount of publicity and the demands…
Frozen carrots on a stick
This is an excellent reminder about how fortunate we are. I think I’ll show it to my students the next time they complain that the cafeteria has run out of…
Harry Dicks is almost worse.
Late last summer, a judge in the town of Newport, Tennessee ordered that a 7-month old boy’s name be changed from Messiah to Martin, saying that “it’s a title that…
Baby pushing baby
My wife played with the stroller that my son is pushing as a child. I have nothing like that from my childhood. I have nothing at all from my childhood…
What teachers know about bedtimes
New, compelling research on the connection between sleep and student success: Researchers reporting in the journal Pediatrics studied more than 10,000 kids when they were three, five and seven years…
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