Bradley Wright's Blog

Well, I just got back from dropping off Gus at his junior prom... a proud moment with such a handsome young man. For reasons that I don...

Twice in the last two weeks, I've walked into a store and had a clerk (both young guys) shout out, as a greeting, "Hey buddy."...

This review, from Publisher's Weekly, is a nice summary of the book (and the publicist at Baker was really happy it's not negative)....

I just came across an interesting idea.... Karlyn Bowman has written that the typical number of meals taken together by parents and children...

Same lake, same sunset, just different perspective (to get the log in the foreground). 

If you've not seen it before, you should check out the Faces of Meth website. It shows pictures of people before and after meth addicti...

Well, I have switched from Flickr to SmugMug as my photography site. SmugMug costs an annual fee, but it looks so much nicer and has a more ...

I've recently read Methland , a story about the effects of methamphetamine use on a small town in Iowa. (I also assigned it to my crime...

Previously on this blog, I presented my new teaching philosophy--derived from the wisdom of Dwight Schrute on the show The Office. Now i...

My forthcoming book (which, by the way, feels really, really good to say), has been picked up by a books-on-tape company.  They are hiring m...

Three pictures of the same daffodils... I'm not sure which one I like best. Any thoughts?

I have been reading and enjoying Robert Samuelson's 1995 book The Good Life and Its Discontents. In one section, he lists what he think...

I've seen a number of statements defining the American Dream, some sincere, some cynical.  So, I was interested when I came across a sum...

Last week I was watching a rerun of The Office, one of my favorite shows, and Dwight Schrute made a statement (to Jim) that epitomizes the a...

An organization wanted to honor orphan children. They inflated a bunch of ballons, launched them, with each representing a child. Well... ...

There was a snowstorm during finals week, and here some students are goofing around in it.  It was a great scene, but I'm not sure that...

I was watching an old episode of the Addams family with Floyd. (We watch it on our Roku, which we are big fans of). In this episode, Mort...