Morals
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When I was twelve, I learned that profanity was “just words.” Or at least that was the argument a friend and I had heard and decided to experiment with. We climbed up into a tree in the park and yelled every forbidden word we knew. The tree was important! It put us safely above the…
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In a modern Grade 7 classroom, to be called a “princess” is rarely a compliment. The term has become a pejorative—a shorthand for selfishness, arrogance, and entitlement. While we might endow younger girls with the title in a spirit of play, we despise it in older ones who are perceived as being “too big for…
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I have a four-year-old son who loves pirates and a two-year-old daughter who loves to dump water on the floor. At any given moment, I feel like I’m on the high seas—and I’m rarely the captain. Puzzles are a mainstay in our house. My son prides himself on 40-piece floor puzzles; my daughter prides herself…
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Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers is a brilliant, bitter examination of the reality of WWII. By following the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima, Eastwood navigates the delicate balance between truth and propaganda, gently deconstructing the “American Hero” without villainizing the soldier. Growing up in America, I was taught the incomprehensible…