Month: May 2012

Back when I was butting up against teachers and an administration that refused to let Neil work at the level he’d already proven himself capable of, we took him to audition for a television show called Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? More than anything, I was delighted to meet the other families. There…

This is the fourth year I’ve taken Neil to the Julia Robinson Math festival at Stanford, and I came pondering if maybe this might also be our last. We’ve come a long way in the last four years, and Neil is now high school age. He’s finding his own clubs and activities with his peers,…