The state of Florida is making a lot of waves lately, and the recent announcement that 41 percent of potential mathematics textbooks and materials were rejected by the Florida Department of Education is no exception. Critics responded with dismay, hinting that such decisions were based on politics rather than teaching. Yet rejecting these textbooks was…
Constable’s Clouds: The Artist Goes ‘Skying’ in His Own Backyard
Cumulus, stratus, cirrus, nimbus. Objects with these strange names affect our lives in many ways. Like a bucket overfilled with water, they pour out rain and snow; with the wind as their partner, they whip up tornadoes and hurricanes; in a pile of styles and sizes, they dress up a clear sky. Like a mother’s…
Lessons From Long Ago: The Cardinal Virtues
Let’s say it’s the fall of 2021, and you’re the mother of a 9-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son who attend public school. Your daughter hasn’t seen most of her classmates’ faces in more than a year, and your son daily complains that the mask is smothering him. Along with other parents, you attend a…
Beauty and the Blade: Meet the Knife-Maker Transforming Discarded Farm Tools Into Beautiful, Bespoke Knives
In deep rural Vermont, there’s a handbuilt post-and-beam house made of boards chiseled by hand from logs hauled out of the woods by a man and a horse. Attached to the house is a carpenter’s workshop and a blacksmith’s shop. It was in these workshops that, as a child, Chelsea Miller watched her father do…
Patiently ‘Painting’ With Thread
London’s the last place you’d think of when looking at hand embroidery artist Susannah Weiland’s homeware designs. Hummingbirds hover between orchids and angel trumpet flowers, peacocks pose among pagodas and park benches, and brightly colored frogs leap between lily pads and giant lotuses. “Multi Hummingbirds” cushions, 2017, by Susannah Weiland. Hand embroidered, one-of-a-kind cushions. Pencil…
Book Review: ‘The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America’s Future’
April 21, 2022
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World War I continues to be studied on the merits of how it changed the global landscape: geographically, religiously, and economically. Not to mention how the peace that followed led to the most devastating war the world had ever witnessed, only 20 years after the most devastating war the world had ever witnessed. These studies…
Myths for Our Times: Frankenstein and the Age of Technology
We have plenty of modern myths to help explain what is going on in the world today. Perhaps the greatest of all is the one written at the dawn of the modern world, just preceding the Industrial Revolution beginning in Britain in the 19th century. That rapid scientific development established Britain as the world’s No….
The Fall and Rise of Men and Women
This world is in a fight between good and evil. Man has been in the struggle since his beginning. Cultivating the clarity to discern between truth and falsehood is half the battle; human beings are given the opportunity to learn through experience and to choose wisely. As instinctively as a child fears the dark, mankind…
10-Year-Old Born Blind Sees No Limits—Loves Riding Bicycle, Skiing, Playing Piano
Although at first glance it would seem unlikely, Ashton Dunford has no limits. The 10-year-old is blind from birth, and yet, he has done all of the same things—perhaps even more—than most kids his age. Ashton, who is Tyler and Hilda Dunford’s second of three children, does not see the limits that could hold him back….
How to Be Civilized: Anton Chekhov’s 8-Step Program
“As your brother and intimate, I assure you that I understand you and sympathize with you from the bottom of my heart. I know all your good qualities like the back of my hand.” In 1886, Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) wrote those words in a letter to his older brother, Nikolai (1858–1889). Regarded today as a…
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