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Millennial Spearhunting
An atlatl is a remarkable thing. I’ve actually held one of the earliest known examples in my hands (with latex gloves), and while I know I’m probably ascribing otherworldly qualities to it, the thing...
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The Gentle Way
Over the last decade of parenting, I’ve learned at least two truisms about children: they are always hungry, and they are always curious. Those realizations have led to two parallel family decisions...
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Water and Time
Concepts and ideas tend to bang around inside my head once they gain traction on a synapse, and more often they not, they collide in big explosions – sometimes of clarity, sometimes of concern, and...
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The Habanero Cycle
COME ON BACK TO AUNT CHILADA’S! the email blared. WE MISS YOU! Ah, Aunt Chilada’s. I’d completely forgotten about you and your weapons-grade muy caliente fajitas – so hot that the cooks have to wear...
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The Course
Impression from a running man Too large for smaller toes to fill Therein the risk that footsteps pose Creating lines of human will That outline choices in one life – One forking path of joy and strife...
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Killer Bs
I forget, every year, that we’re going to have to go over the concept of grades. A was no different this year; he’s often brought me work with the same eager question that H and E had for the first few...
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The Weapons of Goodbye
The last week of August is the week we transition between summer – strictly unschooling – into a slightly more structured version of homeschooling. I usually take the week off from work so we can...
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Why Identifying High Intelligence Might Change Everything
A bit of background to start. Early in September of 2008, our twin girls were five, and had just started kindergarten. What we had imagined for years would be a time of great joy in our house – a leap...
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Making the Choice to Manage Intensity
Our family climbs a steep trail up to the top of a ridge every year to look at the fall color in Colorado. Dave and I have been taking the exact same hike, every year, since before the kids were born....
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48 Hours
In the spring of 1997, I stood outside my old M.S. adviser’s door in the College of Business at the University of Colorado, waiting to ask him, in person, if he’d write me a letter of recommendation...
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