Category Archives: Parenting

Sisyphus

The new banner to my blog site is a picture of a paperweight my dad kept on his writing desk when I was a child. The original allure to me was that a GI Joe action figure was about the … Continue reading

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Equalizing Cultural Capital

There are some truths I question. One came up recently when a colleague told me, “You cannot raise the cultural capital of one group by reducing it from another.” In a broader context, you can’t rob Peter to pay Paul … Continue reading

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Please, Borrow My Stuff

Recently my daughter started borrowing our things.  She fits in my wife’s “trendy” shoes, so she puts them on without asking.  My water bottles disappear into her bag continually because “they’re more grown up”.  Ironically, she is also at a … Continue reading

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Shortened Biographies

Watching people try to understand the mass shooting of children is a painful human study.  I heard the news during an elementary school Christmas performance.  I watched men at the barbershop try to make sense of the endless television reports.  … Continue reading

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Bowling with Jesus

Here is a transcript of a conversation I had with my seven year old this week: Dad: Please don’t bowl with the baby Jesus.  That might not be real respectful to God. Son: Can I use the donkey? Dad: No, … Continue reading

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Servants Hearts

The following is a journal entry my daughter wrote during our family trip to New York: “I feel that being thankful is important because it makes you stop and think about how blessed and lucky we are. We take for … Continue reading

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Keep a Smile On!

The first full week of school runs everyone ragged, adjusting schedules, teaching routines, and learning your place in a new communal order; kids and adults.  My son must have seen this on my face from across the field during his … Continue reading

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What I Did Last Summer

What a cliché title, eh?  I’m not a fan of the long summer breaks in this profession, probably because I’ve heard so much ridiculous commentary from friends who work less and earn more about “lazy teachers who only work nine … Continue reading

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Childlike

Once I could drive, I started taking my grandmother out for lunch every few weeks.  During one of those visits, we spoke of the difference of childlike and childish, agreeing we both wanted to maintain the former into our adult … Continue reading

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A New Decade

In about 24 hours I will have been a father for ten years.  I am occasionally reminded of romantic times when I didn’t just teach children about writing poetry, but I followed my own inspirations to create; this was the … Continue reading

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