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I started over after not practicing yoga for several months.
Author: Will Cox
Missed Connections
When I’m driving along the road, I wonder, “Where are they going? What do they do? How is their life?” When someone brushes by you at the mark...
Fight the Power
Compulsory schooling is vile.
I Rise Before the Dawn
The wind shaking rain from the leaves. The heavy breathing of sÅngshÄ« quÇŽn.The clomp of his owner’s boots. The broken muffler of the newspaper deliver...
Age Segregation
From grade schools to senior villages, we now spend much of our lives on separate generational islands. Can we reverse the trend? “What ‘age segregation...
Disillusionment
I can clearly remember the moment when I realized that my interests did not align with school’s. I was 13. I loved school. I loved it because I saw my fri...
The First Day of School
The Night Before No. 2 Son (6), on tomorrow: “I wish every school day were Saturday, so then we would not have school.” Supplies bought. Forms compl...
What I Did On My Summer Vacation, by Will Cox (age 43)
Nothing. I did nothing. That is to say, nothing much planned. I visited with a friend. I spent a lot of time with my family. I read two books cover-to-cover. I ...
Consequences
These days when the children are not with me, and I’ve nothing to fill the time after I bring the work day to a close, I reflect on all those wasted years...
In which apathy sets in
Huh? Apparently the school budget was up for approval on Tuesday. I didn’t notice. This is the first year since I became a property owner that I’ve ...
Cul de sac
I have to say that I was way ahead of the prediction curve on this, partly through desire and partly because it’s pretty fucking obvious just from looking...
Sorry. Procedures.
I’m reading an excellent book right now that’s discussing how we surrender our judgment to detailed rules and procedures: The Death of Common Sense: How Law...
The Arlington (NY) Central School District School Board of Education Seeks Perfection
They chose an impossible goal: no failure. [B]y the year 2017: a. Increase 5 year graduation rates to 100% b. Achieve 100% grade level literacy by the end of Gr...
Against Full-Day Kindergarten
The Common Core State Standards website asks, Q: Why do we need educational standards? A: We need standards to ensure that all students, no matter where they li...
You Missed a Spot
In housework, as in any field primarily concerned with the reduction of chaos, the work itself is not noticed; only the failures are. Take a few moments today t...
Things I Love About Working from Home
the sounds of children playing making breakfast sunlight on the deck the Great Blue Heron and friends the smell of dinner cooking watching her at work hugs the ...
Great Scientists
A friend of mine posted a Carl Sagan quote that reminded me of something. Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A f...
Public Embarrassment
This needs a picture. The corner grocery has placed anti-theft devices around the pregnancy tests. Has the embarrassment of purchasing a pregnancy test caused a...