literacy

February 19, 2014
Recent Reads

The past few months, I've been squeezing in lots of time with books. Far from being an inactive ambition, reading is about living and thinking fully. As Will Schwalbe wrote, "reading is not the opposite of doing; it is the opposite of dying." As you will see, I tend to alternate between fiction and non-fiction […]

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January 28, 2014
How to Teach Your Child to Read

In my pride, I always thought that my children would read pre-pre-preschool. In the womb, I read them fairy tales. In toddlerhood, I balanced them on my lap and flipped through sturdy board books. I leaned over the bathtub and spelled out words with rubber letters. From about age two, I read them piles of […]

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August 7, 2012
25 Things You Can Do TODAY to Make The World Better

"I'm not sure I can run 4 miles," I told Tim yesterday, as I held my 1/2 marathon training plan in my hands. "You don't have to run 4 miles," he answered non-chalantly, "you have to run one mile - four times." Sometimes the problems of the world seem too large. I wrestle with the […]

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