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(July, 1995-June, 1996)
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(July 1996-June 1997)
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(July 1997-June 1998)
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(July 1998-June 1999)
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(January, 2001-present)
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- Shy, No. Retiring, YES!! -- thoughts after my first week of retirement.
- Poseable Dolls -- America has a way of treating children as parental property rather than small people with special emotional and physical needs.
- Bastards of Young -- perhaps the young aren't much interested in news because it depicts them as lazy, ignorant, and dangerous, and ignores everything they care about?
- A Sense of Who We Are -- at last we're beginning to make an effort to keep and remember our past.
- Like a Message in a Bottle -- of the things we leave in books to mark our places.
- Making Time Stand Still -- what compels writers and artists to try to capture experience, get it down on paper?
- Planting Memes -- how ideas spread and catch on.
- Secret Lives -- we all have secret lives, not necessarily because we want to hide ourselves, but because none of us pay enough attention.
- Loco Motion? -- why do humans ignore the biological imperative of laziness?
- That Little Old Smut Peddler Me -- Dr. Laura calls us smut peddlers because we think we are better at protecting children than filters are.
- Must By 50 Ways To Fix Our Country -- my responses to the George book, 250 Ways To Make America Better.
- When Fair Play Isn't Fair -- how the American penchant for fairness and moderation can be used against us.
- And That's the Way It Isn't -- what we see is not a natural reality, but a reality that resulted from somebody's decisions.
- Polishing Our Tools -- on making intelligent decisions.
- Night Vision -- on protecting children
- Achieving Frivolity -- that old Puritan hangover makes it hard for us to have fun that isn't uplifting or educational.
- It Was a Wonderful Life -- remembering my sister, Joan Cleaveland
- Riders of the Purple Sage -- the "sagebrush Rebellion" is less about seeking freedom from government interference than sneaking free goodies from the taxpayers.
- Transitional Lives -- reflecting on a book about women like me, raised to become June Cleaver just as June's world vanished forever.
- Tales Like These -- on our two guiding American myths: Norman Rockwell and the marlboro Man.
- Interesting Times -- the 20th century has seen some impressive changes, but nothing like the quantum changes of the 19th century.
- Merry Christmas!
- 1999: a Good Year for Books
- Tug of War -- on the kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez and the cravenness of politicians
- Try Trusting Us -- when a public issue is urgent, and not even the experts can agree on what to do, maybe they should ask us.
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T -- we don't get much of it, and we should demand more
- Teach the Children Well -- if I was going to teach for a year, I'd teach second graders to love language
- Of Freaks and Geeks -- a show that reminds us what it's like to be adolescents
- I'm Glad You Asked Me That -- good questions make for good decisions
- Here Comes a Regular -- on our need for casual gathering places and good conversation
- A Game of Names -- an intriguing way to arrive at appropriate pseudonyms
- Someone Else's Planet -- how do we learn to be competent?
- Change a Word, Change a World -- you can't change what you call yourself without losing the old word's history, shared understanding, emotional resonance.
- Yesterday's Gone -- of TV antennas and sidewalks and other things that have somehow vanished without my noticing
- Down Computer! Down I Say! TwoTwo -- or, why voice recognition software is not the solution to my problem.
- Let Me Entertain You -- teaching as a performance art.
- Afraid of Harry Potter -- why do we want kids to read and yet censor the books they love?
- Not Clones -- parents need to understand that kids are SUPPOSED to be different from us.
- Non-Programmable Function -- on apparent choice and real choice
- Besetting Virtues -- perhaps the things that drive our family nuts are not our faults but our virtues.
- Whose Weeds? -- where does helpfulness end and meddling begin?
- But We Know What We Like -- on a statistical view of what Americans like in art.
- Without Means of Support -- on the human meaning of infrastructure.
- Drifting into Virtue -- shouldn't we make it as easy to drift into virtue as into trouble?
- Real Reality -- some reality TV shows I'd enjoy watching.
- Beauty Is a Choice We Make -- we won't be too jealous of the rich as long as we have beautiful public spaces
- Life without a Plot -- on living a conditional life and enjoying every bit of it
- Christmas Card, 2000
- Mechanical Fix -- why do we prefer machines to human judgment?
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