Just a thought, but perhaps your Emergency and Evacuation Plan map shouldn’t indicate your present position in an amorphous speech bubble that seems to engender a sense of flame, heat,…
After reading about the doctor who refused to treat a six day-old baby because the parents were lesbians, my first thought, which I tweeted alongside a link to the piece…
Regardless of how you feel about Steven Fry and his position on the Catholic Church and faith in general, you have to admire this answer on purely rhetorical grounds. It’s…
My wife sent me this photo of my son from a recent visit to a children’s museum. Yes, my family gets to go to children’s museums during the week while…
I was recently sitting at my desk in my classroom, drinking a Diet Coke while correcting papers. A colleague walked in, and as we wrapped up our conversation, she commented…
I walked into the living room and this is what I saw. The thoughts that instantly ran through my mind: Who the hell does he think he is? This…
I received this incredibly sweet but slightly parroted message from my kids just before I took the stage in Brooklyn to compete in my tenth Moth GrandSLAM last week. When…
There is a phrase that has become popular in teaching: Praise in public. Punish (or criticize) in private. I think this depends upon a lot of factors, and especially the…
