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Why Scout Finch Hates School – the Best Novel of the Century and Progressive Education
Posted on October 16, 2015 | 2 Comments“Scout” Finch’s first day in school exposes the pretentious and often hollow ambitions behind progressive education in the 1930s and today. The beloved characters from Harper Lee’s To Kill a […]
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The Sheep, the Wolf, & the Sheepdog – LTC Dave Grossman & American Sniper
Posted on January 30, 2015 | 18 CommentsThere are three types of people in this world: the sheep who go about their business, the wolf who feeds on the sheep, and the sheepdog who protects the flock. Last […]
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A Remedy Much Desired – Suicide & Three Poems by Max Ehrmann
Posted on June 13, 2018 | No CommentsFun, colorful, classic. The first two clash with the third, because when we think of classic, especially in fashion, we think modest, elegant, subdued. Designer Kate Spade made the trio possible […] -
Deep Work, Digital Detox, and the Year of the DOG
Posted on February 25, 2018 | No CommentsDeep Work If you haven’t read Cal Newport’s book Deep Work, Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, I recommend it. A friend gave it to me for my […] -
Fruitcake & Friends & Truman Capote
Posted on December 23, 2017 | No CommentsWINTER SOLSTICE There are sunnier days ahead! The days are getting longer with the winter solstice just past. Day length on December 22 is two seconds more than yesterday in […] -
Pawfect Rescue – Our First Adoption Dog
Posted on October 6, 2017 | No CommentsBuster Brown came to town on September 16, 2017. He is our family’s first ‘rescue’ dog. Until now we had dogs from a breeder and the pet store, and […] -
Little Free Library – Charter # 46480 – For the Love of Reading
Posted on September 12, 2017 | 3 CommentsThe Little Free Library (LFL) is up, in the yard, along the road, by the wooded end of our lot. It is full of books of all kinds, fiction, non-fiction, young […] -
July 4th – An Oath Ceremony at West Point
Posted on July 4, 2017 | No Comments“I, [state your name], do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and bear true allegiance to the National Government; that I will maintain and […] -
The Pursuit of Excellence – Music & Mother’s Day
Posted on May 13, 2017 | 2 CommentsWhat is the average amount of time a student spends on task without interruption? What are the three root causes of interruption? How do students achieve excellence given these digital […] -
Keep Chirping – Poetry & What Divides Us
Posted on April 28, 2017 | No CommentsWord of the day: a cephalophore is any of a group of Catholic martyrs who were supposed to carry their heads in their hands. Also: The family of mollusks with distinct heads. […] -
Spring Cats – Feline Poetry & T.S. Eliot
Posted on April 14, 2017 | No CommentsThis spring cats are everywhere, in my reading, on my whiteboard, in illustrations. I came across Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot in Haslams, a […] -
Unity or Chaos? C.S. Lewis on Stage in NYC
Posted on March 31, 2017 | No CommentsOn Thought & Existence Do you believe that thought is a collection of atoms rolling about at random in a bony skull? or that the arrangement of such atoms for […]