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  • Taking the First Step to Restore Civility

    Taking the First Step to Restore Civility0

    I learned another life lesson from my friend the UPS man the other day. He stopped by with a couple of packages, and in response to my query informed me that yes, the delivery industry was still in Christmas mode, COVID-19 having turned the year into one long, exhausting holiday season. Given the intense nature

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  • Taking Ta-Nehisi Coates Seriously

    Taking Ta-Nehisi Coates Seriously0

    In June 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a feature in the Atlantic arguing that the terrible history of blacks in the United States justified reparations. Many consider this a radical proposition. Yet critical reaction was mild.  Kevin Williamson, writing in National Review, disagreed with Coates’ proposal but was impressed with the “beautifully written monograph,” describing the

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  • Taking School to the Woods

    Taking School to the Woods0

    English philosopher John Locke once advised that children should have “shoes so thin, that they might leak and let in water, whenever he comes near it.” Yikes! I thought when I first read that passage in “Some Thoughts Concerning Education” years ago. The mother’s heart of caution within me still balks at that idea … but

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  • Taking Poetry to Heart Is a Lifetime Gift

    Taking Poetry to Heart Is a Lifetime Gift2

    In the spring of 2014, I served as prompter for a local homeschool poetry fest in Asheville, North Carolina. From pre-K students to high school seniors, students marched onto stage and recited verse to an audience composed of family and friends. The little ones trebled out nursery rhymes, middle-schoolers delivered impressive reams of rhymes—Shel Silverstein’s

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  • Taking a Liberty ‘Booster’

    Taking a Liberty ‘Booster’0

    Recently I was flipping through A Child’s History of the World, by Virgil Hillyer. I never used this classic textbook with my own children or my students, and now regret that oversight. Hillyer writes well and simply about the past and sometimes with a wry sense of humor, as evidenced by these lines:     

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  • Taking a Closer Look at Black Lives Matter

    Taking a Closer Look at Black Lives Matter0

    On Monday night, the Black Lives Matter protest came to the sleepy beach town of Huntington Beach, California: about 500 protesters, most of them white, denouncing police brutality against black men. A diverse group of students, retirees and mothers with children faced off against about 200 police officers, some mounted on horses, many of them

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