A couple scenes from life with the new puppy.
Not Quite Lifelong Learning
“So let me get this straight,” I said. “If I were to drop out of school tomorrow and get a job at Burger King, the state would pay for my child care?”
August 28, 2008 By
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Madame President, Our Teacher
The primary role of parents applies also to teachers and world leaders: Dear Madame President [though of course, you may turn out to be a man]: Teaching and teacher education have traditionally been viewed as women’s work and practiced by women. Like nursing, teaching has never been taken seriously among the more august professions…. I […]
July 8, 2008 By
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We’re All Home Schoolers
Today’s homes are if anything even more important in the educational ecosystem of most Americans.
June 30, 2008 By
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A Modest Proposal
It held the title of “most e-mailed story” at the New York Times for most of the day on Tuesday, but is that really how you would want to recommend these books to your spouse?
June 11, 2008 By
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Katie Kalmerton & Clyde Squire–Requiescat in Pace
The church is Catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does belongs to all. When she baptizes a child, that action concerns me; for that child is thereby connected to that body which is my head too, and ingrafted into that body whereof I am a member. And when she buries a […]
April 9, 2008 By
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Protected by a Child
How many times do my children protect me from harm? How does their innocence move me to seek innocence? Their natural desire to explore, learn, grow and create often protects me from losing context.
March 2, 2008 By
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How to Use Your B.R.A.I.N.
“I was speaking with another expectant father this morning, and our conversation turned to decision-making during childbirth and the almost inevitable need to tell some health-care professional to stick it in their ear…”
March 2, 2008 By
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Do you breathe the water?
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to MotherhoodDuring my first pregnancy, I lived on a truck route. My pregnancy manual, the ubiquitous and sometimes disturbing What to Expect When You’re Expecting, said that unless I was living in a bus terminal or a tollbooth, “breathing in […]
February 10, 2008 By
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