I Feel Weak

And my perceived lack of social power affects assessment of my physical strength

Class Therapy

How the Loman family helped my students understand their own

Bash It Out

The Brilliance of Foolishness

Is laughter holy?

A Reader’s Guide to Ha Ha (A Webcomic)

On the many strange spellings of a very strange word

Strange Science

… and why we need it

Winning Isn’t Everything

How the self-esteem movement has failed our kids

The Art of Elegant Simplicity

The Five-Kilometer Race

A note on the seething insanity of running

Sneak Attacks (A Webcomic)

What’s that word again?

Brown Wasps

“Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

Learning to Be Social
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What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?

The Murderer as Everyman
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Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

Revenants

Between Memory and Hope

The love poetry of Anthony Walton

The Heart Yearns Without Tears
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After the Fallout
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On jellyfish babies, my father’s pain, and the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific

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