While digging around to try and find age-appropriate birthday wrapping paper recently, I came to the conclusion that I can look at my wrapping paper bin the way others can look at tree rings to determine the tree’s age and other things. In my wrapping paper bin, I see quite a bit of wedding paper [...]
In class last week, my students and I talked about fighting for a good life and how different people go about fighting for what they believe in. We talked about what kinds of people take a stand to fight for causes, and I asked what names they could think of. Several familiar names quickly filtered [...]
On my way to teach last week, I saw a kid wearing a t-shirt that had big block letters on it. Despite staring at the letters for quite some time, I couldn’t ultimately decide what they spelled out. The font, you see, was of the sort in which a capital O looks very much like [...]