Some make an abrupt transition to adulthood. Others take their time….
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Weighted With Words
Nineteenth-century snobs were right…it’s dangerous to encourage reading.
Four-legged Pensioners
I submitted this to the Globe and Mail when I realized I was paying for a welfare state for the pets in our household.
Like Father Like Father Like….
Mirror, mirror, WHO THE HELL IS THAT?
The School Of Rat
Published in the Globe and Mail in the winter of 2011, this recounts some of my most enjoyable experiences with rodents in a classroom.
It’s Something, But It Ain’t “L’histoire.”
Canadian History In Ontario Schools
This is a piece for the National Association of Scholars, under the pseudonym of Butler Schram. I chose that pseudonym to honour Butler’s Rangers, arguably the toughest guys in the Loyalist ranks of the Revolutionary War, and Frederick Andrew Schram, my 5th great-grandfather and a Corporal in that unit.
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