An article in the Wall Street Journal entitled School Reform, Chicago Style described a school district’s policy of providing habitually tardy and absentee students with a wake-up call each morning.…
Each night, as she listens to my wife read to her, I lift my daughter’s tiny feet from my wife’s lap and kiss them. She smiles at me. Sometimes she…
The relatively young, previously healthy tree in my front yard appears to be dying for no discernible reason while the identical tree about twenty feet to the left is perfectly…
I distrust convenient names. For example, does anyone else find it a little too convenient that the fastest man in the world is named Usain Bolt? Bolt? C’mon. Doesn’t this…
When my children are is old enough to understand, I am going to offer them some advice in regards to ideal spousal identification. My friend, Kim, tells her children that the most…
My wife spent a portion of our Hurricane Irene morning teaching Clara to type. Apparently she has been learning that letters in combination amount to words as well. In addition…
1. Lose 23 pounds, bringing me down to my high school track and field weight. Down 21 pounds as of this morning. I may be setting a new goal shortly. …
When I was in junior high and high school, I was a proud member of the school’s drum corps. During my six years as a member of our school’s competitive…
I know I have attacked the institution of coffee before and also immediately reconsidered that same position. But did you know that there are nine Dunkin’s Donuts within three miles…
I took advantage of the excessive rain of Hurricane Irene to teach my daughter how to catch raindrops on her tongue. Note that the sound effects were he doing. She…
