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Fieldwork: Lessons From Play
The beginning of baseball season has me remembering. Most of the important lessons of my life happened to me when I was much younger. It’s just taken me all these years to get their meaning. I’m still discovering, for instance, the lessons I learned—good and bad—about how to treat other people.
A Prepositional Proposition—Dec. 10, 2009
I hate it when people talk at me. Since childhood, when a parent or other authority figure assaults me with words, sentences, paragraphs… they fail to communicate and I shut down.
When my children were young, I tried to remember that sensation and to avoid doing the same thing to them. Sometimes I fell short. Lectures, tirades…whatever you call them… if I couldn’t resist the temptation, words were said and meaning was lost.
Questions about Questions—Dec. 8, 2009
The news that Melinda Duckett’s family has brought a wrongful death suit against CNN and its host Nancy Grace has me thinking anew about the power of questions and the responsibility of those who ask questions. In 2006, Melinda Duckett's son Trenton disappeared. As in most such cases, a parent—in this case twenty-one-year-old Melinda—immediately became a suspect.
The Real Questions on Rogers' Healthcare Testimony—Nov. 20, 2009
Read a response by PCP's Dave Joseph to Rep. Rogers' much talked about comments on healthcare...
