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It’s Holy Month
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
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
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
Before the eruption, it was a typical senior leadership meeting at Wayward. Head of School, Tim Endibel, was talking. On…
Words Matter
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
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
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
Women's rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen of Let Women Speak had a big announcement last week. Give it a watch. And…
Making Waves
Two women - Kemi Badenoch and Kellie-Jay Keen - made a splash across the pond on Terf Island this week.…
The Hidden Paw
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Julius Caesar Act 1…