Spend a few minutes online and you will find the “tradwife:” Bread on the counter, children in matching clothes, a husband just off-camera, and a nostalgic performance of domestic life. It is more romantic than historical. I just read Wallace Stegner’s “The Big Rock Candy Mountain,” ...
Excellent teaching rarely announces itself in big, visible ways. It happens in intangible and often difficult-to-quantify moments of connection and “aha” in our classrooms and labs. It also happens in emails, in feedback and in the quiet back-and-forth in online spaces where encouragement ...
Who will replace Pam Bondi as Attorney General? When will the conflict with Iran be over? How many Executive Orders will President Trump sign this week? How many times will the President visit Mar-A-Lago this month? And where will Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift get married? I’m not sure I ...
My birthday is in April. I don’t know what, exactly, I’ll be doing to celebrate (other than opening a gigantic pile of presents I hope). But one thing that I will for sure NOT be doing is playing “The Game of Averages” from the February 1904 Cosmopolitan magazine, which bills this ...
“We come on the ship they call The Mayflower. We come on the ship that sailed the moon. We come on the age’s most uncertain hour. And we sing an American tune.” These are lines sung by Paul Simon in the last stanza of a 1973 song describing the tensions within our country of exceptional ...
The baskets and decorations are packed away in the tote marked “Easter.” The chocolate rabbit is long gone. The sugar-crusted Peeps will soon be finished along with the foil-covered eggs. Only the jelly beans will last longer than the week because, well, they’re jelly beans. The ...
