“The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.” — Shaun Hick In less than a week, Tennessee students will walk back into classrooms for a new school year…. Read More ›
Month: July 2025
Silence, Settlements, and School Starts
“Life…is not a simple thread which is only extended in length, it is a large web or rather a network, from interval to interval, casts branches to the side in order to unite with networks of other order.” ― Jason… Read More ›
💥 Just Like That, It Was Done: How MNPS Quietly Bought Silence for $6.5 Million
“I was thinking about stabbing myself in the face—not actually considering stabbing myself in the face, but thinking that it would be a physical expression of how I felt.” ― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing Just like that,… Read More ›
Buckle Up: Raising Kids and Raising Questions in Public Schools
“And right away her gaze went hard with the anger we always feel at the person who spoils our idea of ourself.” ― Susan Choi, Trust Exercise You’d think that after more than a decade of writing this blog, I’d… Read More ›
America at 249, Me at 60
“Love and loss, are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 