Today, we had a snow day, which means there was no school, even though the snow didn’t begin until an hour after Liliana would have come home from her morning Montessori class. Needless to say, I did not accomplish much today, at least on my seemingly important (although not) To-Do List. So, today I’m going […]
Religulous
So. My husband and I watched Religulous, Bill Maher’s controversial documentary blasting organized religion. Here’s my humble hypothesis. You will emerge during the credits with one of two attitudes: indignant rage or well-yeah-that’s-kind-of-how-it-is. Dan and I felt the latter, and Dan and I consider ourselves Christians (or Jesus followers, because that says who we really […]
Girls and Boys (At Any Age, But Especially in High School)
Okay, a full disclosure is needed here. I’m generally not fond of Y.A. books (Young Adult books, for those of you who might not know). In general, they’re scary. At least for this parent of a young girl. And I say this having taught high schoolers for eight years! I’ve found the perfect anecdote that […]
The Underneath
Ten years ago this summer, I took my first-ever writing class from Kathi Appelt at Rice University. It was early on in my husband’s year-long surgery fellowship, and we’d just arrived in Houston. The heat was unbearable, the people were outrageously polite (“Hello, ma’am”s everywhere!), and Kathi was fascinatingly interesting, as were all the attendees–some […]
Evolution and Charles Darwin
Dan and I and little L. have recently flown to a faraway tropical island. On the plane I tried to catch up on my Speaking of Faith podcasts. One in particular, that I’d been eager to listen to, was “Evolution and Wonder: Understanding Charles Darwin.” You’d think that since my training was in the biological […]