Things I’ve Done
Events I’ve attended and places I’ve been.
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What would you do to change education if you ruled the world? That’s how Jon Snyder began the Bank Street Niemeyer Panel at the Times Center on 41st Street – March 1, 2010. The discussion: Race, Class, and Reform. The panelists: Irving Hamer Jr., Peter McFarlane, Michael Nettles, Jeannie Oakes, and David Sciarra. The mental
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I remember our first Christmas together. I had gotten her one of those hand-held electric back massagers (which she asked me to return). She had gotten me a DVD player (which we had to buy a new TV to accommodate). And we had a live tree that we bought from a reformed drug addict who
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Marita doesn’t need a brand-new school with acres of playing fields and gleaming facilities. She doesn’t need a laptop, a smaller class, a teacher with a PhD, or a bigger apartment. She doesn’t need a higher IQ or a mind as quick as Chris Langan’s. All those things would be nice, of course. But they
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My eldest and I spent the day at the Brooklyn Book Fest (more correctly the Target Activities Tent). We had Five Guys and then walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. Click the picture for a slide show.
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Before I was a parent I used to joke: “That’s how Chinese people show love.” I made that joke every time my friend complained about how critical her mother was of her. We were in our 20s then. It is curious just how much impact “mother” has on a person. I am just over 40
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It was a case of wrong place, wrong time for my wife, the boys, and me at this year’s Make Music New York celebration. We missed most everything. However, it wasn’t a complete disappointment. We managed to make High Tea with Dame Darcy and Jessica Delfino at the New York Marble Cemetery.
Vincent Young 