This is the real reason you go shopping before a snowstorm
Daniel Engber of Slate offers an explanation as to why people behave like idiots before a snowstorm, rushing off to a grocery store that will undoubtedly be open at some…
Malcolm Gladwell on shorter attention spans, inherent unfairness, and the selfie.
From an interview with Malcolm Gladwell in The Guardian comes a few of his more interesting comments: I don’t know why people think attention spans are getting shorter. Thirty years…
The single greatest death bed regret of Generation X (and maybe beyond) will be this:
On their death beds, the people of my generation will lament the time the spent driving – sometimes daily – from grocery store to grocery store, chasing the freshest produce,…
I didn’t respond to a stranger’s unsolicited manuscript for 48 hours, so his angry response was probably justified. Right?
On Wednesday of this week, I received an email from someone who I don’t know. This is the entirety of his message, minus his name and the Word document that…
Sequel Protection Service: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (The Millennium) series
So many times in my life, I’ve wished that I had avoided one or more of the sequels to a book or movie. Spoiling the beauty of an original story…
A student wrote something that made me cry while reading it aloud. And thanks to the rules of my “Make your teacher cry” contest, my tears were caught on video.
For the past five years, I have offered a challenge to my fifth grade students: Write something that makes me cry. The contest was born from Sharon Creech’s Love That…
Outdoors at last!
The snowpack is finally low enough to not swallow up our children, and temperatures have finally risen enough to not risk frostbite and hypothermia in our little ones. It’s been…
23 jobs I seriously considered at one point in my life (and still do with a few exceptions)
Firefighter Attorney Clown Postal carrier Professional arm wrestler Bartender High school English teacher Standup comedian Minister Historian Waiter President of the United States Librarian Sociologist Sportswriter Therapist Behavioral economist Bookstore…
Why do I blog? Because it’s nearly led to national television, and it still might. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
I’ve been blogging for over ten years now. Every single day for more than a decade, I have sat down and written something for a blog. Before this blog, there…
12 Things Teachers Wish They Could Say to Parents
Parent-teacher conferences begin for me this week. I will sit down with parents and students and discuss academic progress, effort, behavior, and the students’ prospective futures in middle school and…
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