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…
Heroes have a way of making you realize how small-minded and ungrateful you have been.
Meet former US Special Forces soldier turned humanitarian aid worker David Eubank, running through ISIS gunfire in the embattled Iraqi city of Mosul in order to rescue a toddler who…
Shameful Betsy DeVos can’t say what most human beings can say with ease
Here is the Secretary of Education for the United States of America, the caretaker of our public schools, the protector of our children's future, and also a person who has…
Suck less
I love this sign. We live in a world where the President of the United States opened his very first Cabinet meeting by having each of his Cabinet members praise him…
Not all sources of inspiration are equal
I've often said that you should use whatever you can find as a source of inspiration, but this might be a little much even for me.
Sleeps like her daddy
My daughter Clara, age 8, is very much like her Daddy. Up before the crack of dawn almost every day.Recently I was telling my students about all the books she…
If you are reading this, it is very likely that you don’t deserve the fourth cookie
"You owe a debt to the unlucky."Michael Lewis's 2012 commencement address is a truly outstanding speech.So often I am told that a speech is great when it is not.A speech…
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