Why does writing instruction so often suck?
Slate’s Matthew J.X. Malady offers any number of reasonable answers to this question, but I think the answer is far simpler: Writing instruction at the elementary, middle, and high school…
Slate’s Matthew J.X. Malady offers any number of reasonable answers to this question, but I think the answer is far simpler: Writing instruction at the elementary, middle, and high school…
A friend of mine and his wife have separate bedrooms. After a six week business trip, he arrived home to a wife who had never slept better in her life.…
Ray Bradbury was born 94 years today. My favorite Bradbury book, and one of my favorite novels of all time, is Fahrenheit 451. It took Bradbury just 18 days to…
I am entering my sixteenth year of teaching this year. I have learned many things over the course of my career. One of them is this. For all of you…
My friend came over last week and installed a faucet under my sink. This is not the first time I have asked him to help me with a repair. He…
My boy likes to read, which is great. He can’t actually read yet, but you know what I mean. It’s not quite as great when you’re trying to put…
Melissa Batchelor Warnke of The Morning News asks: Say you had a buck in your hand: What would be the best way to invest it? The piece features answers by…
I’m not a big college football fan. I don’t have an allegiance to any college football team. But wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell may have turned me into a Georgia Bulldogs…
It will not come as a surprise to many that I don’t know a lot of things. But in addition to not knowing many things, there are also many things…
Running back and forth between Mommy and Daddy while waiting for our table was enough for our son. He needed nothing more. How lucky we are.