I’ve really resisted starting a blog. There are so many out there already. Who has time to read them all? I’m not an avid blog reader myself. We all spend so much time at the computer already, and I find myself eager to get done with my screen business so I can get back to reading my book. Truth to tell, I read only one blog regularly. Every morning when I fire up my computer, there is Diane...
Our in-person meetings are rare. Even our email exchanges aren’t as frequent as I would like, but she is one of my favorite people. We first met in Chicago in the late 90s, at a point when we were both working our tails off to get new schools off the ground. Bureaucratic obstacles deprived her school of the rich future it deserved. That shared struggle led us to cooperate on a book – a...
Yesterday was Rosellen’s birthday. We had already done the formal celebrating a few days earlier when our daughter Adina was visiting, so the wining and dining were behind us. Instead, we marked the occasion by visiting the greenhouse where we buy the plants and seedlings that populate our plots in the community garden and our back porch.We had cancelled two earlier trips because the weather was...
A Tribute to the Non-Retired You’ve probably heard some...
Swimming to Cambodia and Marching Over the Bridge You’ll recognize that as the title of a movie starring Spalding Gray based on his experiences working on a film called The Killing Fields. No, I’m not planning to swim...
Depending on how you figure it, I’ve been hanging out in and around classrooms and schoolhouses for more than 45 years in a variety of capacities – teacher, coach, school director, project administrator. Chalk dust and magic marker vapors have left their mark on my nostrils and lungs. Every time I drive by a school, I feel the same nostalgia, tinged with jealousy, that overcomes me when I see...