Life Itself

5 months ago

 One thing leads to another. How do you get from the Daily Poem in the Paris Review to a re-read…

The Silence of the Associations

6 months ago

It has been nearly four months since the publication of the Independent Review of gender identity services for children and…

Six Word Story

6 months ago

A legend makes a good story. To win a ten-dollar bet, Hemingway wrote a six-word story. “For sale: baby shoes.…

The Hard Way

7 months ago

I received a book in the mail this week. Nothing unusual about that even though I do try to buy…

The Cats

7 months ago

Dilys was the first, circa 1980. Unwanted or abandoned, I can't remember how she came our way but she left…

It’s Holy Month

8 months ago

I put this image together in honor of the Holy Month that's now upon us.  Given the proliferation of days,…

Columbia, Cats, Cass, and a Spring Stickybeak

9 months ago

Before decamping to Brooklyn for the month I saw this on a utility box on Riverside Drive. Someone had gone…

The Affair of the Chocolate Teapot

10 months ago

Midge Hazelbrow, the indomitable co-head of Wayward St. Etheldreda's Academy, took herself for a brisk constitutional down Riverside Drive to…

Best Practices, Reading Wars, and Eruption at Wayward

11 months ago

Before the eruption, it was a typical senior leadership meeting at Wayward. Head of School, Tim Endibel, was talking. On…

Words Matter

11 months ago

When I taught fourth and fifth grade at a school that didn't assign grades, the topic occasionally came up among…