Last year our daughter admitted to us that she hadn’t really believed in Santa anymore. In fact, she hadn’t believed… Read more The “Death” of Santa Claus does not Mean the End of the Magic.
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A Beautiful, Terrible Conversation – Part One: Sitting in a Car
Forward This has been hard for me to write, so I hope you bear with me. For my friend who… Read more A Beautiful, Terrible Conversation – Part One: Sitting in a Car
A Memory of a Father
Recently a friend of mine, someone I’ve known most of my 42 years on this Earth, called late one night… Read more A Memory of a Father
Parenting Lessons from Skipping Rocks
“Now hold it just like this, like a frisbee, but smaller.” His large, dark, rough hands would move my chubby… Read more Parenting Lessons from Skipping Rocks
Discovering I Teach a “Racist”
Yesterday, on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr’s assassination we received the news that a student at my… Read more Discovering I Teach a “Racist”
