Our backyard, other than the patio area, was politically zoned to children. We were administratively, and physically, its masters. My dad put up a swingset, which was never properly anchored. When you pumped a swing hard, or got a trio of folks on the glider, one or two legs would thump out of the mud, […]
Read More Be CautiousThe neurology PA is not much of a negotiator. “No coffee, dairy, or alcohol,” she says.
Read More South SeasIn the reviews for the film “Waiting for Superman,” several writers have described the lottery for slots in the “good” charter schools. At the school where I teach, families are reluctant to pull their students out, even if it is clear that the kid doesn’t want to do the work, and isn’t (at least currently) […]
Read More “Good” Schools and “Bad” SchoolsA crane is poised, one dramatically elegant leg up, one down. Right in the way that we expect free animals to be right, right with itself, and the world, and the now. “Ortho” right: straight, correct, orthodox. On Saturday I saw this crane sculpture, about eight inches high. Dark metal. A neck straighter than nature […]
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