A Prayer for our Children’s Teachers
In a few short weeks for the first time Team Hiemstra will entrust the care of all of our children into the hearts and arms of many different individuals for the better part of six hours every day. As...
View ArticleWhat Makes a Real Man?
A cute vignette in a stage adaption of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten yesterday made me contemplate a post that got buried in the archives this past summer. If you’ve read it...
View ArticleThe Legacy: What We Pass On to Our Children
One of the joys of Christmas break (besides the obvious lure of scrumptious culinary delights and the pageantry and sentimentality that is Christmas) is the chance to do a little more reading without...
View ArticleKnowing the Questions, Middle School Style
In the opening pages of Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir Night, a young Elie hears from his mentor Moshe the Beadle that every question possesses a power that did not lie in the answer. Elie follows up...
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