The Cats

10 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

10 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

11 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

1 year 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

1 year ago

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

Words Matter

1 year ago

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

The Culinary Capers and Comic Catastrophes of Gerald Samper

1 year ago

It was the Gert Loveday review of Rancid Pansies (it’s an anagram) that set me off to read James Hamilton-Paterson’s…

Working and Not Working

1 year ago

A post on LinkedIn caught my attention this week.  It's had over 11,000 views so I'm not alone. Tanya de…

Gall, Nerve, Courage, and The Party of Women

1 year ago

 Women's rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen of Let Women Speak had a big announcement last week. Give it a watch. And…

Making Waves

1 year ago

Two women - Kemi Badenoch and Kellie-Jay Keen - made a splash across the pond on Terf Island this week.…