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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…