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Sometimes You Get a Ticket Home
Last week, I whined about the difficulty of having a child home for summer break. This week, I learned that...
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Green jobs vs. pink slips
Over the past couple of years, finances at Greenback have been tight; I know they have been on a lot...
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Don't Just Stand There, Say Something
“Well, look who’s here,” sneered my older, tenured, male colleague, “It’s Dr. Diversity.” Leaning into the old boys’ corner of...
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The Story of an Essay
Wick Sloane shares the tale of a student and of Tim O’Brien, from Vietnam -- North and South -- to Bunker Hill, and on to Mount Holyoke.
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Memory and Sequence
I’ve received a couple of wonderful messages lately from readers, each touching on the theme of memory. Taken together, they’re...
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(Ed Tech) Work as a Luxury Good
A classic thought experiment. If you won the lottery today, would you go to work tomorrow? I'm betting that if...
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Math Geek Mom: Our Dean
The Fall of 2001 was a difficult one for most of the country, as we collectively got used to the...
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No place
There's a video making the rounds of the 'net, purporting to show the results of oily rain falling on Louisiana...