Here is 15 year-old Anthony Borges, who was shot five times while protecting 20 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students by holding a classroom door shut to prevent shooting suspect…
Just because our cats are brothers doesn't mean they are anything alike. One cat licks walls and faucets. The other one is learning math. One his own. With an abacus.
Donald Trump spent the day and evening at his Florida resort yesterday attempting to gaslight the American people via Twitter. He's clearly a desperate man.We need to be cautious and not…
Elysha Dicks and I took the kids to an evening program at their school last week. While making our way to the gym, we passed some of their work hanging…
Here's one of the beauties of being a teacher.Last night I had the opportunity to perform at the Cutler Majestic Theater in Boston as a part of The Moth's GrandSLAM…
I became a teacher in 1999. This was the same year as the Columbine shooting, so I've spent my entire career in the shadow of gun violence in America's schools. Every…
One of life's most important skills is writing a nasty, angry email, letting it sit for a minute, then deleting it and moving on.
I don’t look at the pilot when boarding a plane. I'm terrified of looking into the cockpit and seeing a pilot who looks like an idiot or resembles someone who…
There will come a day when our children or our children's children will read about the anti-vaxxer movement and say, "What was wrong with you morons?"I will say, "In the…
The shame, embarrassment, incompetence, and cruelty that Trump and his White House produces on a daily basis makes is hard to remember all of the horrors of the past year.…
