clock … watching time, the only true currency

I kept the boy from noticing the title of my most recent book, Dinosaur in a Haystack, by Stephen Jay Gould. Just as well…I didn’t really want to read these out loud. The boy is reading, but Gould revels in employing each bon mot just so, and he stretches my vocabulary and cultural acumen often [...]

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I haven’t been in school for years, but I’m surrounded by the school calendar. And, honestly, I’ve never really let go. With Labor Day only hours past, summer feels officially over, even if San Francisco weather is never quite so convincing in its transitions. Today, the girl goes to school for the first time, the [...]

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Read the quote below from The New York Times article “In Baby Boomlet, Preschool Derby Is the Fiercest Yet“: After years of decline, the number of children under 5 in Manhattan, where the most competitive [pre-school] programs are located, increased by 26 percent between 2000 and 2004, according to census estimates. Yet the number of [...]

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