It was a purgatory of a brunch shift when I started consider the choices that had led me here. Chef and I had invented an entire family (The Shittingtons) and were busy narrating their adventures to ourselves (The Shittingtons Visit the Grand Canyon) and picking on our 18-year-old dishwasher.

In 2008, the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) burst onto the scene, almost immediately hailed as the savior of modern higher education. The concept sounded radically appealing: For those who couldn't afford to attend conventional colleges and universities, the MOOC provided tools for self-guided

I’m not the first person to say that we have impossible standards for teachers. In this case, what I mean by that is that we expect them to be loving, caring people who do what they do out of some higher moral calling, yet we also want them to be neutral purveyors of non-politicized knowledge. So

The first time I spoke to my son about sex, I was nervous. Rather than wait for the conversation to occur naturally, I had decided it was time to sit him down and talk him through a few of the basics. Even though I had a pretty clear idea of what message I wanted to send and what image I

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