“Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.” ― Kevin Barry We humans like to think we can control life and arrange all the… Read More ›
Education
Beginnings and Endings
“Once you name something, it stops you seeing the whole of it, or why it matters. You focus on the word, which is just the tiniest part, really, the tip of an iceberg.” ― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient Another school… Read More ›
A Week’s Worth of Rumination
“I pity people who can’t find laughter or at least some bit of amusement in the little doings of the day. I believe I could find something ridiculous even in the saddest moment, if necessary. It has nothing to do… Read More ›
Do We Ever Stop Protecting Adults and Institutions Over Students?
“Home is where your mistakes can be seen in context.” ― Robert Crais, The Best American Mystery Stories: Volume 16 This week, college football experienced a minor earthquake that will have lasting ramifications for student-athletes. Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava was one of the… Read More ›
Where Are You Going to Go? Home?
“It is curious to observe how customs and ceremonies degenerate.” ― Maria Edgeworth, Complete Novels of Maria Edgeworth We have lost the ability to listen to each other. We claim to be fans of critical thinking, but that would… Read More ›
The High Cost of Partisan Discource in Education.
“Moments in time when the world is changing bring out the best and the worst in people.” ― Tan Twan Eng Forgive me if I am a little groggy today. We are in the midst of our first varsity… Read More ›
Observations from the Edge of the Thunderdome
“Their relationship had become like the river – smooth and constant, but sluggish, opaque. They were standing on opposite banks, watching it go by. He dared not interrupt it – smash its calm, swim across – for fear of forcing… Read More ›
Upon Further Assessment
“It’s an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don’t want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in… Read More ›
The Case of the Disappearing Deputy Education Secretary
“I penetrated the outer cell membrane with a nanosyringe.” “You poked it with a stick?” “No!” I said. “Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.” ― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary Sometimes, the… Read More ›
Counter Intuitive, or Something Like That
“I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.” ― Leonard Cohen When my kids reached about nine years of age,… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 