As a stay-at-home dad, I’ve been trying to master the art of negotiation. It’s not like trying to master the guitar since there’s a constant variable – the guitar – and the guitar doesn’t care about anything, so you have to coax it into making beautiful (or, in my case, tolerable) sounds but it won’t […]
There’s a genre of books about books that’s worth a “deep dive.” They’re accounts of reading as a kind of active, life-sustaining enterprise in contrast to our widespread perception that sitting in a chair with a good book is not a working life. I frame it this way because much of the momentum in education […]
I’ve been thinking lately about the middle. The political middle, that is. A place where moderation lives, where change goes to decelerate and perhaps die. The moderate – the dweller here – is perhaps someone who wants to preserve the status quo, or maybe, sees complex problems for what they are and avoids sweeping, revolutionary, […]
This is a first blog entry from a stay-at-home dad with advice from his dog, Larry (hence the website). Any errors or moments of extreme exaggeration are his; he’s smart (a Bichon Frise) but he is also prone to see things in extremes. All dogs outside are threats, all visitors to our house are saints […]