New Orleans I looked at the book, Advice to 9th Graders, and shook my head. I was going to have to pass on this one. It was way outside my lane. It was about advice to 9th graders from older teens who were looking back to their bridge from middle school to high school. …
Category: Wade’s World
A Warm Coat
Pearl River Every once in a while, I stumble onto something that surprises. It’s not an organization that is solving some huge injustice exactly, or even trying to make social change, much less a policy that will impact people, but still it’s making a difference when it matters in its own way, even if …
Bullying
Pearl River Maybe I’m wrong, but the recognition that bullying in school is a real issue has become a central focus for parents and educators now and that wasn’t the case when I was coming up. Then it was “boys will be boys,” and advice that all bullies would back down, if you hit …