My kindergartener
My daughter enters kindergarten tomorrow. I can’t believe it. Time hasn’t exactly flown by for me. I write to my children every day, reflecting on the day’s events, noting tiny…
My daughter is making new friends for me
My wife was telling me about a couple we are scheduled to have dinner with next week. “I don’t know these people,” I said. “How did we meet them?” “Clara…
Perfect cure for the first day of school blues
I love my job. I wanted to be a teacher when I was eight years old, and for a long time, I never thought that dream would come true. When…
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…
There is nothing wrong with a married couple sleeping in separate beds. There’s something very wrong with allowing society to stop you from doing so.
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. Since…
Love the book. Hate the fact that it only took Bradbury 18 days to write it.
Ray Bradbury was born 94 years ago today. My favorite Bradbury book, and one of my favorite novels of all time, is Fahrenheit 451. It took Bradbury just 18 days…
Advice for teachers about to embark on another school year: Stay out of the classroom
I am entering my sixteenth year of teaching. I have learned many things over the course of my career. One of them is this. For all of you teachers who…
Boyhood made all the difference for me.
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…
Can you imagine a better way to start the day?
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 him…
What is the best way to invest one dollar?
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 from…
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