Nouvelles et histoires

Over the past 14 years, I’ve participated in triple-digit GORUCK events, both as a participant and/or organizer. I consider all of these events worthwhile, with several that I would call life-changing, and two of which I would classify as perfect....

When it comes to motivation, few embody the spirit of reinvention like Arnold Schwarzenegger. The man has continually redefined himself, transforming from a small-town boy in Austria into a world-class bodybuilder, the iconic Mr. Olympia, a blockbuster movie star, the...

The Mercy Rule (also known by the lesser names of the Slaughter, Knockout, or Skunk Rule) is a concept familiar to kids, parents, and coaches across the nation. My seven-year-old knows what it means, even if it only exists in...

It’s hard to believe it’s been seven months since I first wrote about the dozens of proposed public school closures in my hometown — a list that included my children’s well-attended and beloved Atlantic Beach Elementary. The news of these...

Fun facts: The Eiffel Tower was built a couple years prior to the 1889 Exposition Universelle to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. It’s no secret that initial reviews of Gustave Eiffel’s innovative design were mixed; and by...

And yet for all the talk of budgets and numbers, I think what I’m trying to express goes beyond the numbers and our human attempts to live and work and learn together. What value do we place on a neighbor, whose own children have left the nest, painting a tire swing with words of encouragement and love for all who pass by? How does one nurture a student, a family, a school, a community? How do we continue to weave the social fabric of our locally-led lives? 

It’s tough to accept when you are wrong. 

For the past decade, Jason and I have gone round and round about solo screen time for our kids. I argue there is a time and place for it; he wants to banish their iPads to the dumpster. What about when we are trapped in an airport or car with them on long trips? Or when they’ve been playing outside all day and it starts raining and we all want a break? He shrugs and says a version of “it’s a slippery slope and I don’t like it.”

By Emily McCarthy I once knew a guy in college who dove so deep into an intro level philosophy class that he told me he was going to read chapters from Plato’s Republic to his future children. He planned to...

A couple of summers ago, when my oldest child was 9 years old, I decided to push her out of the proverbial nest. No, no, I did not kick her out of the house permanently. I merely informed her that...

"Nous partons littéralement vers le coucher du soleil pour sauver votre GR1. ” J'ai dit cela en regardant Michael Easter, penché sur son téléphone, essayant de mettre à jour son Localiser mon ____ (insérer tout produit Apple perdu). Nous nous...

TL;DR : Les marées changeront plus vite que vous ne le pensez. Utilisez une rampe s'il y en a une. Lorsque vous vous retrouvez embourbé dans la boue, rampez pour sortir (et d'autres conseils sur la façon d'échapper aux sables mouvants...

Par Emily McCarthy De nos jours, il semble que vous ne puissiez pas aller trop loin sans entendre parler de ChatGPT – le dernier bond en avant de l'intelligence artificielle (IA ) la technologie des chatbots. Selon la personne à qui...

Par Emily McCarthy Lorsque j'étais jeune et stupide, je me suis rendu dans un pays d'Afrique du Nord à l'été 1998 pour rendre visite à un ami d'université qui était inscrit à un programme d'études d'arabe à l'étranger. C'était la...