I am so shocked by today's news about VA Tech. I am not sure why I'm so shocked as this sort of thing seems to happen all of the time. Of course the scale of it. I just can't imagine ( Read more... )

Last week when I was driving to campus to teach I saw something miserable. I saw this boy--middle school age, I think, although I am notoriously horrible at gauging ages of children--standing at the corner of a residential street in my neighborhood, presumably waiting for the school bus to arrive. It was approximately 8:30 on a lovely, sunny, and ( Read more... )