Last Wednesday was my school’s fifth snow day of the school year. For students this is a cause for celebration, though for teacher’s, a headache. It’s a pretty good illustration, I believe, of different long-term thinking abilities—students aren’t considering that we’ll now have a total of five days tacked onto the end of the school …
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A Wrinkle in Time (and Bed Sheets)
A Wrinkle in Time is weird. It’s been very popular since Madeleine L’Engle (giving the late Ursula K. Le Guin a run for the name-pronunciation money) wrote it in 1963. Very soon it will also come out as a big-budget film, and I’m excited for that. Oprah is in the film, and Oprah’s never made …