My summer vacation started with pain and fear. Then one man made it better.
My summer vacation, which began 10 days ago, unfortunately started out with a whimper.I have a tube put in my ear - the same kind of tube that little kids…
Boys in skirts
It's been done before under similar circumstances, but every time it happens, I feel great joy and hope for the world. A short-sighted, authoritarian school regime arbitrarily decrees that shorts are…
I don’t have T-rex arms, but if I did, it would be for a very good reason.
One of my friends famously described me as a "neckless stump with legs for arms."This wasn't nice, but when I use that description onstage to describe myself, it always gets…
A summer camp has adopted my restriction on commenting on physical appearance, and I’m thrilled.
For more than a decade, I've been refraining from commenting on student's physical appearance, both negatively or positively. It's a policy I explain to parents and students at the beginning…
Greatest badass of all time
This is real. A photo of a man in Alberta, Canada mowing a lawn with a tornado swirling behind him.Cecilia Wessels snapped the picture of her husband, Theunis, as the twister…
Dumb school officials make dumb decision
I can't stand stupidity. This is stupidity.The senior class President in Exeter, PA is delivering a speech at commencement. He decides to go off-script and criticize the school for the…
Last Man Standing
I've been teaching in the same elementary school since 1999. This year I said goodbye to my 18th class of students. Spending almost two decades in the same workplace has become…
Hermit crabs could teach US politicians a thing or two
I watch this UNBELIEVABLY AMAZING VIDEO THAT YOU MUST WATCH of crabs exchanging shells and can't help but wonder:Why can't our politicians work together like this to solve our problems? Seriously.
“All gender” restroom signs are the best
Another Moth StorySLAM at The Oberon in Cambridge, MA meant another night using an all-gender restroom. This time I brought friends who found themselves in the presence of the opposite…
Democratic Republic of the Congo, of course!
My daughter, Clara, is a bit of a geography nut. At the tender age of eight, I would venture to suggest that she knows more about world geography than most…
