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…
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…
The things I get done while sleepwalking
I've reached a new (and perhaps frightening) level of productivity. Last night I went sleepwalking. It's something I did quite a bit as a kid and still do on occasion…
Wherever you stand on the political spectrum, you have to admire and hopefully agree with everything that James Comey says here during last week’s hearings.
Some people may not believe everything he said during the hearings (and yet simultaneously and inexplicably claim his words serve as vindication), but these words come from a patriot who…
Why indeed.
Newspapers still exist, and thank goodness they do, not only for their important investigative journalism, but to also give voice to ninja-level truth tellers like Barbara Rank from Hidden Oaks…
How to Save a Boy
One of my high school classmates passed away this week. Joey Makar was one of those kids I was friends with in elementary school but drifted apart from in middle…
My home state’s stupidly misspelled word, and some confusion about misspelling related to pornography
As a writer, teacher, and geography nerd, I was so excited about this map of America's most misspelled words. Then I saw my home state of Connecticut's most misspelled word…
17 rules I break
Last month, I wrote about my philosophy of rule-breaking: If someone is breaking a rule, and the breaking of that rule hurts no one, always leave the rule breaker alone.…
Compound interest to applied learning
I'm a proponent of incrementalism: Exceptionally small changes, reproduced over time, yield enormous results. Find a way to utilize five minutes of otherwise wasted time every day, and over time,…
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