We learn best at our tipping point. But that is an idea that is not sinking in to some parents, these days. When I taught high school for five years, I could count on one finger the number of parents who called me to clarify assignment specifications. However, after teaching 5th and 6th grades ...
Why Paleo Is a Crock
This fall, I went Paleo for five minutes. Actually, it was five weeks, but still, I'm no expert. The real experts can tell you a lot of cool stuff about the Paleolithic Diet, but is it the important stuff? No, it's not. The experts have too many things at stake, things like cookbook sales. That is ...
Flunking the First Sentence: Advice for Writers
There is a difference between a filet mignon at Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse and a Salisbury steak from Hungry Man. A big difference. Not all meats are created equal. By the same token, not all sentences are the same, and nowhere is this more evident than in the first sentence of any ...
When Your Kid Sees a Disabled Person at the Grocery Store
One lonely lemon rolled down the side of the produce pyramid. Then it leapt heroically, only to miss my shopping basket and land on the polished floor. I had parked my mart cart parallel to the row of citrus, and the lemon had fallen right down into the two-foot-wide ravine between my bumper and ...
A Time for Every Purpose: Why I Am Not Teaching This Year
This morning new and veteran teachers watch from classroom windows as school buses pull into the back parking lot or cars pull into the front. Those teachers wear eager smiles and may try to disguise the signs that they feel a little nervous, too. They offer hugs and pats on the back. They ease ...
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