Although I’ve never heard him say it, my father has got to feel good about […]
Author: Malcolm Gauld
Malcolm GauldThe Big Shaggy
Back in college, I wondered if something was wrong with me because of my choice […]
Cultural Bias #82: 5 Books
I picked up a used copy of Peter Hamill’s Why Sinatra Matters (Little, Brown, 1998) […]
Rule #25 – Drop Charlie Everybody Like a Bad Habit
School life, like family and work life, comes with a familiar assortment of common issues. […]
Rule #24 – Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously
Whereas Rule #19 demands that we not take things personally, this one asks us to […]
Rule #23 – You Don’t Get Something for Nothing
Here’s another one of those adages that rolls off the tongue so often that we […]
The Zen of JV Football
Scene: Outside a New York coffee shop at 69th and Lex. A voice from behind […]
Rule #22 – Raise Yourself in Your Own Eyes
My philosophy of education can be summarized in two quotes. The first – in both […]
Rule #21 – Find Someone to Make You Do What You Can
This one comes from a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Our chief want in life […]