Because of some behind-the-scenes stuff (specifically the ending of FollowByEmail), I am migrating my beloved blog over to SubStack. The URL...

I have been thinking a lot about liminality.  I guess it comes with my age and maybe this past school year. Or COVID or my children getting ...

OK, I have to get this off my chest.  (And apologies in advance for being all over the place, but this is more of a wound-lancing than a sch...

I  know that the news and policy-makers continually talk about "learning loss" as being the concept that seems to be dominating th...

There is an episode of The West Wing  late in season 5 called "Talking Points" where Josh Lymon is feeling victorious over his neg...

Years ago, in that way that could mean last week or 1997, I read "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell. (Yes, that George Orwell...

I spend most of my life with books on shelves.  I am surrounded by them at work and think about them all the time.  How to organize, how to ...

Warning: This is going to sound like a pouting/pity party but it isn't. It is the stuff on my heart at the moment, and that is what this...

I can see it in my mind's eye as if it happened earlier today.  I am 17, sitting on the floor of my room.  I am holding a prized item:...