It has been nearly four months since the publication of the Independent Review of gender identity services for children and…
A legend makes a good story. To win a ten-dollar bet, Hemingway wrote a six-word story. “For sale: baby shoes.…
I received a book in the mail this week. Nothing unusual about that even though I do try to buy…
Dilys was the first, circa 1980. Unwanted or abandoned, I can't remember how she came our way but she left…
I put this image together in honor of the Holy Month that's now upon us. Given the proliferation of days,…
Before decamping to Brooklyn for the month I saw this on a utility box on Riverside Drive. Someone had gone…
Midge Hazelbrow, the indomitable co-head of Wayward St. Etheldreda's Academy, took herself for a brisk constitutional down Riverside Drive to…
Before the eruption, it was a typical senior leadership meeting at Wayward. Head of School, Tim Endibel, was talking. On…
When I taught fourth and fifth grade at a school that didn't assign grades, the topic occasionally came up among…
It was the Gert Loveday review of Rancid Pansies (it’s an anagram) that set me off to read James Hamilton-Paterson’s…