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I was reading an article about anxiety in the New York Times Magazine last night (yes, it’s from September 29—the Sunday Times takes me two weeks to read at times!) and it reminded me of how useful it is to be aware of and honest about your strengths and weaknesses. No, this has nothing to [...]

For some reason I watch no television at all when Molly is at home. Okay, I watch soccer, but that’s a form of relaxation more than actual television viewing. When she is gone, I pick something off the DVR that I recorded months ago because it sounded good. Last night’s was Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives. [...]

As an English teacher, I always have to stick up for myself when my students assume my weak math skills caused me to choose English as a major. I try to throw out some quick computing skills when given a chance, like dividing a 374 page book into equal reading assignments. (What I try not [...]

I just finished reading a book by Neil Shubin called Your Inner fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. It’s obviously a book promoting evolution, and Shubin’s angle is to show how our bodies provide a perfect road map to follow evolution way beyond apes and other primates. He shows how [...]