This morning a friend sent me a NYT Opinion piece titled "What Most American Schools Do Wrong." After 39 years in elementary classrooms in California and Washington I could hardly force myself to read on. What indeed? I could think of dozens of...
There was a time -- say, from 1936 to 1986 -- that I had never met another soul named Sydney. Certainly not "Sydney with a y" and not a girl Sydney. Only my great uncle Sid after whom I was named, "but with the female spelling" my mother said....
The lead sentence in the online NYT story this morning: Good morning. The recent shootdowns of flying objects show how quickly tensions between the U.S. and China can escalate. I truly think that's one of the stupidest sentences I've ever read. ...