Poop is here.
“I poop!” and “Poop is here!” are the two ways that my son signals the need for a diaper change. I’m never a fan of a diaper change, but I…
ESPN makes the same stupid mistake that they criticized NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for two months ago.
Bill Simmons is suspended by ESPN for three weeks after calling NFL commissioner Roger Goodell “a liar” after the commissioner claimed that he never saw the Ray Rice video in…
My annual plea to the girls in my fifth grade class: Maintain your advantage over the boys. Rule the world.
On Friday, Hillary Clinton pledged to work to get all the female Democratic candidates on the ballot elected in November. “I can’t think of a better way to make the…
My daughter received her first library card. Her father might be more excited about it than she is, and for good reason.
My daughter received her first library card last weekend. She was thrilled. I think my wife and I were even more excited than she was. She also checked out her…
I have a simple, inexpensive, highly effective means of improving learning for all students: Make things fun.
The makers of the dancing traffic light get it. It works because it is fun, and fun always increases attention, engagement, effort, and performance. Fun. It’s a word that is…
This author found a way to sell books with sticks and leaves and a little bit of twine.
Last weekend I took my children to Winding Trails in Farmington, Connecticut, to a Fairy House Tour. I had never heard of such a thing and had no idea what…
Our unusually dark and strange family lullaby
About two years ago, I sat down with my infant son to rock him to sleep. Regina Spektor’s song On the Radio was running through my head, so I decided…
The Grecian Bend was stupid, but no. Heels are still stupider.
Slate’s Rebecca Onion recently proposed that the Grecian Bend was the most preposterous ladies’ fashion trend of all time. In the 1860s, it was fashionable for American women to wear…
There was a dead man in our hotel room.
Slate asks: What protocol does a hotel follow when a guest is found dead? Turns out I have a little bit of experience with this question. When I was 23…
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