My son loves the Archie McPhee catalog. At his request, Santa put “Stickman in Peril” stickers in his stocking last December.
Stickman is now in peril in various places around the house. My two favorites are below:
The upper one adorns the wall behind the bathtub; the lower one is on the fish tank. [...]
ITW (or do we call you NIW now?) writes about her childhood experience of ugly treatment by adults. This is something I also have vivid memories of.
The good folks at Can I Sit With You? collect childhood bullying/ostracism stories, some of which they have published. It’s both painful and healing to revisit the [...]
An activist friend contacted the National Coalition Against Censorship about the middle school play-cancelling debacle. They have written a very good letter to the school administration, which follows.
We are deeply concerned about the recent decision to cancel the XXX Middle School performance of Higher Ground, written and directed by teacher YYY [...]
I’ve been feeling the same kind of nausea the last few days that I suffered from for weeks when Ronald Reagan died. Listening to someone you viscerally loathe being loudly and publicly praised does that to a person.
Tristero, on Wm. F. Buckley:
Spectacularly rotten judgment combined with a gratuitously violent nastiness. Those are William F. [...]
In an interview on NPR’s Morning Edition today, Richard Land, public policy honcho for the Southern Baptist Convention, got off a pretty good line. The only thing that spoiled it was his delivery: clearly a man used to adoring chuckles for any witticism he might happen to toss off. Nevertheless:
Senator Clinton is [...]
It seems to be my destiny to put effort into things that don’t matter to others. As my year working for Giant Search Engine Company comes to a close, it becomes clearer that they do not value the time and energy I spent trying to do an excellent job; that an ordinary or even [...]
At yesterday’s meeting, I watched as the charismatic, energetic young mom of one of the cast members — one with significant theater experience of her own, who has been one of the principal advocates of the play — talked to the cast members about production plans. She spoke of the efforts to find a [...]
“Different Drum” by Dick Gaughan. I’m still looking for a postable mp3, but here’s a lyric teaser:
We walked your old road, got sore feet
Time to walk down a different street
Time for change, here it comes
Change to the rhythm of a different drum
Look out world, here we come
Walking to the rhythm of a different drum
After yesterday’s soaring words about being part of the village that raises a child, God decided today to see exactly how serious I was.
I mentioned earlier that my daughter’s school play was cancelled because the administrators, reading the script three days before opening night, decided that the words used to portray the bullying in the [...]
The subject of childhood bullying has been much on my mind lately, what with my daughter’s middle-school play being cancelled because school administrators thought the language — which according to the kids realistically, even “sugar-coated”ly, reflects everyday language at the middle school — was “too mature” for a middle school, especially in the scenes depicting [...]
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