Commercial Success
It’s true: 100 billion …as of 16 years ago. It’s the best-selling pen of all time. (Photo: Bic)
School
It Takes a Village
“Bartender! Another vodka and 7!” “I’m your wife, not a bartender. And I really think you’ve had more than enough.”
Quality Time with the Kids
NOW will you support a raise for teachers (and a cut in administrators to fund it)?
Accommodation
I’ve been seeing this one around with a glaring typo (and without any attribution), so I looked it up to give credit where due. (And I fixed the typo!)
Get a Clue
Yep: everyone is at least somewhat insecure (except maybe the narcissists/sociopaths). Just work hard and you can pull ahead of those who don’t.
Unanswered Questions
Feynman (1918–1988) was a Nobel-prize-winning theoretical physicist known for his work in quantum mechanics and the theory of quantum electrodynamics.
Curse Cursive
I had something really interesting to say in this spot, but I can’t read my notes.
An Important Lesson
Photo: The 16th President with his youngest son, Tad (1864), educating him with the laptop of his time.
I See This a Lot
In honor of one of my old memes going viral on Facebook — again. Posted in 2015, it has been shared more than 675,000 times, and last week had more than 3 million views. It’s here: You Are Judged By Your Grammar. Hat tip to Laura for reminding me of this irritation in reply!
The Search for Truth
Or, as I usually put it, we need to teach people how to think, not what to think. Bertrand Arthur William Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate (Literature, 1950).