Education

Beyond the Box Score: The Stats That Really Matter in Youth Baseball 14
- Culture, Education, Entertainment, Featured, Uncategorized
- July 1, 2025
As my son Eric wraps up his third year of travel baseball, I realize I have different expectations than most dads. Many dads focus on our sons’ performance on the field, with little tolerance for mistakes. A boy will make an error, and some dad will scream in disgust — “That can’t happen! It can’t
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Do Yourself a Favor and Memorize a Poem 16
- Culture, Education, Featured, Literature, Uncategorized
- June 30, 2025
Several times a year I require my students to memorize a poem. Sometimes I choose for them (say, “Death Be Not Proud,” by John Donne). Sometimes I hand them an anthology and let them choose. I don’t explain rhyme scheme or poetic devices. I only ask that the students know the meaning of every word
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An Ode to Amateur Recitals 21
- Culture, Education, Entertainment, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized
- June 27, 2025
Sitting in my winter coat, a Styrofoam cup of tea in hand, I listened in awe as the orchestra on stage finished Gustav Holst’s “Jupiter.” Nearby, several friends of mine sat in similar joyous awe, taking in the music. This was a regular Friday or Saturday evening occurrence during my college years. Thanks to the
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Teaching Children to Embrace the Difficult Delights of Life 16
- Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- June 24, 2025
I browsed the shelves for as long as my mother would allow when I visited the library as a child. When her patience – or our available time – finally petered out, I brought seven or eight books up to the library counter to check out – a healthy mix of historical fiction, fantasy, mystery,
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Restore the American Garage 15
- Culture, Economics, Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- June 13, 2025
Twitter likes to vilify the large cookie-cutter suburban home with a garage bigger than the house itself. And surely this is in some way a symbol of a decadent, mobile society with little sense of place or community. But the American garage gets too much flack from even those on the right. The house on
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The Beauty of Broken Things 18
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- June 5, 2025
It was one of those weekends. Last Saturday, I was driving my oldest son, Noah, to the driving range on a golf cart when my iPhone had enough of life and flung itself from my pocket. A kind motorist, waving us through the crossing, watched in horror as the screen exploded into a crystalline crime
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