Sister Pearl's World - When adults throw temper tantrums...

Hi. I'm Marco's sister. Those of you who don't know me can call me Pearl. When I was nineteen, I bit into a pearl in a fried oyster in some linoleum-floored crab shack on Cape Cod.

I'm a recovering graduate student, high school Spanish teacher, unrepentant history geek, and budding mystic. I've traveled to four of the seven continents. I always love to discuss politics, religion, history, and philosophy. In my other life, I'm also a wife with really poor housekeeping skills. But I can cook.

When adults throw temper tantrums...

I tell you, the fourteen- and fifteen-year-olds that I teach have more sense in their heads than half of the adults I know and to whom I am related.

I don’t know whether to be totally disheartened to be surrounded by so many adults who are still stuck in seventh-grade-style dramas, or be really hopeful that maybe this next generation will be a little more pragmatic.