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…
Purposeful procrastination: Are slightly lower grades really all that bad?
A new study suggests that students who turn in homework at the last minute get worse grades. Of the 777 students involved, 86.1 percent waited until the last 24 hours…
The tyranny of the syllabus
I know a handful of college professors personally. I know a handful more via Facebook and Twitter. I have known many, many more throughout the years. Around this time of…
My children visited a bookstore on the last day of summer. Their behavior was shocking.
We spent the last day of summer on the Connecticut shoreline. Among our choices of activities was a visit to our favorite bookstore, R.J. Julia in Madison, Connecticut. Elysha and…
My best piece of parenting advice
It takes a special and exceedingly wise breed of parent to ignore a temper tantrum like this and instead retrieve the camera and document the moment for posterity. My wife…
Just like his mom. And his dad, actually.
Our son, Charlie, spent the evening cooking dinner with Elysha. He spends most of this time demanding his mother’s attention and hanging on her legs, so involving him in the…
If I was able to choose my children’s teachers, this is what I would want more than anything else.
If I were allowed to choose the teachers for my children, I would almost always choose those with the greatest variety of life experiences. Give me a teacher who has…
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