What I heard while multi-tasking the other day: Nora: Today, in school, we learned what matters. Me: So what matters? Nora: What? Me: What matters? What did you learn? Nora: Dad! We learned what MATTER IS!
Category Archive: Humor
Jul
02
Why and How-To vote early in the Wisconsin Recalls
Wisconsin recall elections are heating up. Don’t be left out of these historic elections. Why wait until the last minute? Learn how to vote early by absentee ballot.
May
30
Do you know what you don’t know?
I love to end the year with my students by studying Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey. It’s a unit about personal growth, and change, and challenges, and transformation, and death and rebirth . . . and maturing. In the early stages of the Journey we typically see “the hero” as naive. We define that as often …
Apr
07
The Tao opportunity in Wisconsin
Once, there was a farmer. He might have lived in Wisconsin, or he might have lived in China. I don’t think it matters much. The important thing is, the dude didn’t have much money. I mean he had to plow his fields with an old horse. One afternoon, while working in the field, the horse …
Mar
07
My good neighbor, Representative Erik Severson
You know? I think I’m starting to come around. I recently received another semi-personal-mass mailing . . . okay–it was a form letter. I’ll admit it. Still, it was a letter, right? I mean, sure. Maybe it was a little vague, and it didn’t really address some of the real deep concerns many of us …
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