Gratitude journal: I didn’t marry that woman.
Tonight I am grateful that my wife is not the woman who was sitting behind me during last night’s Second City performance, failing to hear about a third of the…
The evolving sadness of my mother’s death
St. Patrick’s Day would have been my mother’s 62nd birthday. She passed away in 2007. Losing a mother is never easy. Losing one so early in life is especially hard.…
Gratitude journal: My big little writers
Tonight I am grateful for my class of earnest, committed and genuinely talented writers. As part of their reward for completing two weeks of standardized testing, my class enjoyed a…
Radio New Zealand interview
I did an interview with Radio New Zealand this evening. I think it went pretty well. You can listen to it by clicking on the link below. The most…
Heartbreakingly amusing
It’s not easy to record a video that makes your wife sad but also makes her want to watch it again and again. These two videos accomplish this goal.
New York girl
I love this photo of my daughter. Taken by her grandfather aboard a NYC bus two weeks ago, I love how she looks like such a little girl and such…
Gratitude journal: A lost cow finds its way home
Tonight I am grateful for the reappearance of Baby Cow. Baby Cow is one of my daughter’s favorite little people toys, and she has been missing for almost two days.…
Storm troopers with iPhones
Want a convenient, simple want to charge your iPhone on the go? How about this? It’s called AIRE. It’s a device that allows the user to utilize the force of…
Gratitude journal: 2012
I saw this tweet by Amy MacKinnon (@AmyMacKinnon) today. Lately, I'm finding it difficult to listen to the news. Then I think of how it must have been in the…
“Striking many” and “wishing death to some” still allows time for plenty of math and science
Mathematicians and scientists are often undeservedly assigned nerdy, frail, reputations, and I fear that this perception may steer some students away from these disciplines in school. As a teacher, it…
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