River Dad

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but it’s been hot this summer. Like really, really hot.  Like melt-your-eyeballs hot. Having two young children as I do, and being at home with them during the day as I am, and lathering them with gallons of sun block as I do, and watching them liquefy into pools of goo under the fierce glare of the unrelenting sun as I have, has given me a particularly strong desire to find ways to keep myself and those in my care extra cool.

Read more: Getting Wet

Graduates,

As you prepare to close the book on what has undoubtedly become one of the most vividly enthralling chapters in your lives, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you all on a job well done.

In the past year you have grown in ways you would never have imagined, and have made life-long friends whom you shall never forget. The experiences you've gone through in the past 180 federally-mandated days will shape your future for years to come. This has been a magical year, and I want each and every one of you to pause and reflect upon the life lessons you've learned before moving on to the great adventure that awaits you next Fall.

Read more: To the Elementary Class of 2010