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Mothering at Mid-Career: Teaching, Farming, and Curricular Change

I’ve got a few weeks left in my CSA share. We’re in the leafy-greens stage of the fall, it seems...

Accountability vs. Responsibility

A recent New York Times article describes an incident in which two young people on bicycles ran down an 87-year-old...

Math Geek Mom: Data Points

I remember a cartoon from my graduate school days that showed a cockroach-looking creature looking over the shoulder of what...

Long Distance Mom: Marching Band

My two teenagers have developed musical skills that neither their father nor myself ever possessed. They both participate in marching...

Mothering at Mid-Career: Weekend Update, Election Edition

This weekend I paid for last weekend’s pleasures by working more than I usually do. I had papers to grade...

Cyberbullying or Institutional Overreaction?

A reader alerted me to this article in the New Haven Register because of its pertinence to the continuing discussion...

Math Geek Mom: Homework

I ran into a former student a few days ago who said that, since she took the required college math...

Motherhood After Tenure: Teaching Engagement

This year our college selected a common theme, "Leadership,” and as part of that theme we assigned all our freshmen...