December 8th, 2011 by Nathan | 3 Comments
Has it been that long? Haven’t posted in a while, am in a travel swoon that must be related to not having posted in a while. Wrapping up 2011 as my most-traveled year probably ever. Not quite Matt Gross mileage, but something heavy. Four times to Russia alone, two times to the Caucasus and to [...]
November 1st, 2011 by Nathan | 4 Comments
We’re all in a post-Halloween sugar crash right about now. You too. I saw you sneaking KitKats by the fistful last night. But my crash is tinged with a little dose of further regret: did we knowingly humiliate our boy for Halloween? Of course we did, you say. Every pre-sentient (and I’m still putting a [...]
October 4th, 2011 by Theodore | 2 Comments
Let’s for the moment drop all the pretense and admit that what we talk about when we talk about more parental involvement in our schools is not really more parental involvement in our schools but better schools with absolutely no more involvement than necessary—crazy stay-at-home parents excepted. All of which is to say that if [...]
September 20th, 2011 by Theodore | 3 Comments
JP went to school today in skinny jeans. Which I bought. From Old Navy.
