Jealousy is the brother of invention

The other night Liam built a lego ship that looked like this: What prompted him to create this all-black gunship, piloted by a man dressed in black, right down to his black slouchy hat? ? Rage, pure and simple. He’d come home from soccer camp to discover that...

Mecca, Now Open in Rockefeller Center

It began about a week ago. “What’s the date, mommy?” Caleb would ask. And then he would carefully count from whatever that date was, to the 29th. Oh well, that makes sense, you say, because the 29th is the first official day of summer vacation for NYC...

Will this be on the test?

Liam’s 4th grade has finished two rounds of standardized tests–three days for reading/writing, three days for math–and they’ve got two days of science tests still to do.  Given all the practice tests and at-home tests and in-class work on...