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To Want “But LIttle”: Reflections From a Second Grade Classroom
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Procrastination Nation
What is it about this week between Christmas and New Year’s? Do people pretend to work or are they actually getting stuff done? It has to be the laziest week of the year, right? Or is it just me? I … Continue reading
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. -Robert Frost My daughter made a painting of Narnia for Christmas for me. … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheism, belief, Christmas, episcopal church, faith, Narnia, robert frost, stopping by woods on a snowy evening
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The Myth of Second Amendment Exceptionalism
This is my TIME.com column on the Sandy Hook massacre. It’s a version of the piece I posted here a couple days ago. It’s a familiar drill for millions of travelers: bare feet shuffling on a cold floor, belt off, … Continue reading
Give Me, Give Me, I want, I want (The Zen of Being a Gun Lobbyist)
From the Atlantic’s Secret History of Guns: “In the 1920s and ’30s, the NRA was at the forefront of legislative efforts to enact gun control. The organization’s president at the time was Karl T. Frederick, a Princeton- and Harvard-educated lawyer known … Continue reading
Posted in Children/Teens/Young Adults
Tagged Atlantic, children, CT school shooting, gun deaths, gun fatalities, gun lobby, gun violence, mass homicide, murder, national rifle association, neuroscience of what makes people trigger-happy, NRA, sandy hook, school shootings, school violence, second amendment, secret history of guns
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Suffer the Children
Are there any new words for the grief and fear we feel for those Connecticut school children and their families? I’m rarely at a loss for words, but I have nothing to offer those desperate parents whose lives have been … Continue reading
Christmas Cookie Head Trip
An old post from last year, just for fun: I’m not at all ashamed of my forbears’ predilection for lime Jell-O mix and cornflakes. If you’re a Christmas celebrator and temperamentally at all like me (ie possessing a jejeune degree … Continue reading
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