Resolution update June 2017
PERSONAL HEALTH1. Don’t die.Broken wisdom tooth. Ear infection. And tonight, I nearly fell off the stoop carrying an air conditioner. The universe was out to get me last month, but…
PERSONAL HEALTH1. Don’t die.Broken wisdom tooth. Ear infection. And tonight, I nearly fell off the stoop carrying an air conditioner. The universe was out to get me last month, but…
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…