My latest educational conversation is with MNPS’s Interim Chief Academic Officer David Williams. We meet at his house where he lays out a spread that includes smoked wings and ribs. The food is delicious and the conversation is equally interesting…. Read More ›
“And yet it was true: the responsibility was huge, but there is nothing about being a father that I don’t love. I even found the toddler tantrums weirdly charming. You think you’re being difficult, my little sausage? Have I ever… Read More ›
“That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.”… Read More ›
“Habit rules the unreflecting herd.” ― William Wordsworth “The moment we pulled up in front of her apartment she had the door open. She turned to me with the long, elegant, mournful face of her Puritan ancestors and held out… Read More ›
“The best things in life make you sweaty.” ― Edgar Allan Poe “Politics, as he occasionally said, required three unchanging talents and no virtues. More politicians, he claimed, had been destroyed by virtue than by any other cause; and the… Read More ›
“There’s that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they’re doing it with such panache and conviction…no, it’s because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.” ―… Read More ›
“While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals “There is more than one way to burn a… Read More ›
“Investigations, meditations, careers, relationships were much the same, he mused. They failed because no one thought to ask the right question.” ― Eliot Pattison, The Skull Mantra “Anything that just costs money is cheap.” ― John Steinbeck There are… Read More ›
“It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.” – Jonathan Swift “Had a doctor tell me I ought to quit this stuff [bourbon] because it was affecting… Read More ›
“I felt that if a man’s proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 