We knew exactly what we were getting.
Perhaps you've heard about or even read Donald Trump's recent tweets targeting Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. Disgusting personal attacks on a woman's physical appearance that are,…
Reputation matters even more when the world is small.
Filed under "It's a small world" comes these two gems:Back in March of 1999, my partner, Bengi, and I worked as DJ's at our second wedding ever. While reminiscing about…
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…
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…
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