This site has an impressively long list of education policy blogs that a person could spend all day looking at. I can’t do that, but I can reprint the list right here for those who are interested: Andrew Pass Barnett Berry Bill Jackson’s Education Blog Board Buzz The Chalkboard Charter Blog Chris Correa Cranky Professor [...]
I should say something about the concert we saw last weekend. Mary, Laura and I went over to Berkeley to see the New Lost City Ramblers, who have been collecting and performing old-time, mostly Appalachian music since well before I was born. The leader is Mike Seeger, who is brother to Peggy Seeger and half-brother [...]
We are up in the Sierra Nevada near Lake Tahoe for the week, staying in a big house we rented with three other families we know from preschool. I have pictures, but I sent my camera out with Laura this morning on an all-day hike, so the pics will come later. One of the dads [...]
Mary has been away at one of those professional training things since Friday (the 11th) and it’s not going so badly here, considering. Lilly got a little querulous a couple of times in the first 48 hours, but seems to believe me when I tell her Mom’s return is closer and closer. I think six [...]
Here’s a fine picture of Laura and Lilly taken by Mary. She has this knack for getting pretty pictures from unusual natural lighting.
I’m glad that this guy still reads Newsweek, so the rest of us don’t have to.
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The World at War “On March 2 [1933], Hitler was asked by a [reporter] whether the suspension of liberties was permanent. He answered in the negative, saying that full rights would be restored as soon as the … danger was over.”
Mary and Lillian have been in Atlanta all week, schmoozing it up at the American Public Health Association convention. It’s been pretty hard, not for any practical reason — things have gone very smoothly for me and Laura so far — but because I love them both so much and like having them around. Laura, [...]
Reason No. 1,352 why there’s obviously something wrong with me: This kind of thing just makes my day. Laura has already picked out “Mom” and “Hannah;” perhaps in a couple of years she’ll be ready for: “Straw? No! Too stupid a fad. I put soot on warts.”
Michelle Whittington died Sunday. For several years she was the head teacher at Playmates Preschool’s Young 5 section, which is for kids who are almost ready for kindergarten but aren’t old enough, or old enough but not ready. She built it into a strong, joyful, lively place, a little fog-belt Summerhill. When Laura got there [...]
Needs no comment. Courtesy of Michael Smith again, the intrepid Peru journalist/blogmaster.
You liked the book, you’ll love the band. Thanks to my connections in the Judicial Branch, I am now the president of the Jue-Kuster Household Chapter of the Trout Fishing in America Fan Club. Laura is the vice-president and power behind the throne, and Mary, because she’s not quite as crazy about them as me [...]