@RASJacobson

March 31, 2011

I'm With Andy Rooney

Well, check out this link that shows Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes. Turns out, I have something in common with the ole codger….

Read More…

March 18, 2011

I'm a Guest Blogger Today

Today, I wrote about something completely unrelated to teaching or parenting; I wrote about my crazy, irrational love for “bad boy” movies….

Read More…

March 16, 2011

I Tip For Great Grammar

Once a month, I bop into a fabulous little joint called Massage Envy. It’s an awesome place where a girl (or guy) can go to get a relaxing massage for a reasonable price! Anyway, the one in my area just so happens to be located about 4 minutes from my house. So. Convenient. How could I say no to a one year commitment? I couldn’t. …

Read More…

March 14, 2011

Let Them Eat Pi

Did you know that today is Pi day? Well, it is. Here’s how I found out….

Read More…

February 21, 2011

To Kindle or Nook? That Was The Question.

So you remember how I blogged about how I couldn’t decide which e-device to go with. Well, I decided….

Read More…

February 14, 2011

Lessons on Valentine's Day

Today I shall chronicle some very special Valentine’s Day memories….

Read More…

January 12, 2011

So About That Sign

Yesterday at 7 am, I posted a blog about a sign in my local grocery store that has been driving me bonkers for years.

By late morning, I received an email from a representative from Consumer Affairs. While the rest of us were chattering about the sign and its grammar, one of my loyal readers — a former Wegmans’ employee –made a call and the sign was promptly removed….

Read More…

December 16, 2010

Lessons From Nan, Who Passed On June 16, 2004

I will always remember Nan, wearing a snazzy pair of purple pants, sitting on the gold couch in my parents’ living room. Just sitting quietly, patiently, watching my brother and me as we made up games or put on little shows. Many years later, she would sit in the same place, doze off an on, awaking with an almost apologetic smile. Agatha Christie once said, “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable . . . but through it all, I know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” I believe Nan knew this, too….

Read More…

November 19, 2010

Lessons From A Boy In a Skirt

Several years back, on the first day of the semester, a student walked into my classroom. A boy, clearly, a male — wearing a long pink skirt, his hair tied in a low pony-tail. When I read the roster and got to his name, he corrected me and told me that his name was Sophia.

I quickly noted the change.

When I met Sophia, she wanted gender reassignment surgery. She wished for it, but knew it would be a long road. As gender reassignment is an irreversible procedure, two letters of therapy clearance would be required. She explained one therapist (psychologist, psychiatrist, social worker, sexologist) would be required to have a doctoral degree, and one of the two therapists would have to know her for an extended period of time. When I met Sophia, she was simply trying to change the name on her birth certificate and running into all kinds of roadblocks. A ward of the State from age 15, Sophia was living with distant relatives. She had no car, was taking the bus to campus, and had no expendable money for one therapist, let alone two with the kind of credentials that she would need to put her on the path towards gender reassignment….

Read More…

November 8, 2010

Are You Proud of Your Sweet Little Bully?

In the all the bullying literature that is out there, there is one piece of the puzzle that hasn’t been particularly well documented, and so I’m putting out there. Guess what? Sometimes parents of bullies are proud that their children are bullies. I have heard parents admit they would rather have their children be the ones “standing up for themselves” than the ones being bullied: that they have actually encouraged their children to get physical first, so that they are never made targets themselves. For me, this is the ugliest, darkest side to parenting….

Read More…

0
    0
    Your Cart
    Your cart is emptyReturn to Shop