Archive for May 2015
Wine snobbery debunked.
There are few things in the world that I despise more than snobbery. The ostentatious display of wealth is disgusting and often a sign of a lack of confidence or self-worth. As a result, I find research like this genuinely heartwarming.
Read MoreMy son is an overnight bully. Also, he apparently has superhuman strength.
In the past six years of parenting, our children have slept in our bed for about a total of four nights. Four nights over the course of six years and two kids isn’t bad considering I have friends who have their children sleeping with them more often than not. I have a friend who spent years…
Read MoreI would make the same face if forced to eat avocados
I love this video except that it’s title contains an annoying grammatical error that has yet to be fixed, even though YouTube titles can be easily changed.
Read MoreWhy was this second grader drinking a beer, and why did I allow it?
When I entered teaching 17 years ago, I expected to the job to bring many benefits to my life: Work that I loved. Stable employment.Summer vacations.A career that afforded me the opportunity to make a real difference in the world I taught second grade that first year. I had a class of 20 students. One of…
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5 Quick Productivity Tips
One of the questions that I am asked most often relates to how I manage to be so productive. I have many, many answers (if you click on the productivity category on this blog, you will find many, many answers), but when I only have a moment and a person really wants an answer, here…
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A dance recital freak show, including marital discord, a gangrene foot, and a woman mistaking a children’s dance recital for a dance party
My daughter danced in her recital yesterday. She performed in three numbers plus the finale. Numbers 3, 35, 42, and 45. As you might imagine, there was a lot of time spent not watching my daughter onstage. When she was onstage, there was much dancing, along with waving at us, pointing at us, and a…
Read MoreAngry Bear Versus Little Girl: A Haiku
Little girl chased by bearBlood and gore amid the sycamores Tasty bear sandwiches
Read MoreMy daughter got in trouble at school, and I’m so glad.
Of course I’m disappointed in my daughter for the ticket that she received at school this week for failure to follow directions in wellness class (her school’s version of physical education). And I’m equally disappointed that this is not the first ticket that she has received this year for failing to comply to school rules.…
Read MoreSequel Protection Service: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
So many times in my life, I’ve wished that I had avoided one or more of the sequels to a book or movie. Spoiling the beauty of an original story with a disappointing or (even worse) destructive sequel is a tragedy that should befall no human being. Thus behold: Matthew Dicks’ Sequel Protection Service. Having…
Read MoreNo photo like this exists of my sister and me.
My children make me feel like a retroactively terrible brother.
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