Category: Culture
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How did I get here?
When I was in college, the Talking Heads song Once in a Lifetime was popular with students. One of my friends, I vaguely remember, set an entire room full of test-taking students into guffaws by calling out, apropos of nothing, “This is not my beautiful pencil!” But the part of the song that’s relevant today…
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Education for everyone
I noticed a few pieces that came down the education news pipeline in the last few days decrying the state of our college education system. OK, so we apparently have beaten down our K-12 system enough, and we’re going on to bigger fish. Not only are our kids getting a crappy education leading up to…
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Welcome to the hairy potty homeschool. Please be seated and stop arguing with your sister.
I admit I’ve come rather late into the game. I have only just now been introduced to Harry Potter. Yes, it’s true: Harry Potter has been part of our household for six years, and I have managed to avoid him. My husband read the first two books out loud to our son, then declared it…
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Drought or deluge
I was mentioning to someone that we had exceeded our yearly average rainfall, which was a bright little piece of news amidst floods, landslides, and tsunami. “The problem is,” she said, “we don’t have average rainfall. It’s either drought or deluge.” How true that is. This morning my husband looked out the window and said,…
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Face that book with a smile
I just finished reading The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains. It’s a much more subtle read than the title might imply. He’s not actually saying that my brain has been taken over by Facebook. He’s only implying it. Or something like that. I’ve been having trouble with my short-term recall these…