Over a long and lazy holiday weekend my mother told me that as a child I spent hours on end locked in my room reading, reading, reading and writing, too. She always felt, she added matter-of-factly, that I’d grow up to be a writer. In the midst of preparing a day after Christmas meal where […]
On the Home FrontAt a small and quiet Thanksgiving reunion, family members discuss the rules of Secret Santa and we wait while we vote on how much we should spend. There is laughter. Jolly. Some argue that the purpose after all is not the gift, but the gesture and “don’t we all have very little […]
When I was younger, I was told that a sign of diplomacy and intelligence was the ability to act rationally and to control your emotions — especially in a debate. So, I practiced this and when I grew up and had just about enough, I decided that instead, I would become an artist. Then I […]
I live in the country where it seems that nothing happens. I confess that I have fallen prey to the art of generalizing. You know – the people here, the places here, they’re so “country.” I long for the crisp sidewalks of the urban terrain. I long for the crisp ideas that pop off dirty […]
On Exploring the Contemporary ChildI can barely lift my head out of the sludge. The alarm clock beside my bed reminds me that I am home again, back to reality. Ironically, as I stare at that short rectangular box on top of my vanity, I am reminded that my alarm stopped long ago. Back when […]
Reading Tolstoy for Social Justice Education Brilliant Tolstoy discusses the complex nature of “education for emancipation” in his classic novel, Anna Karenina. I refer to Levin, of course, a wealthy landowner who spends his time in the country farming, writing a book on agriculture and secretly longing for the simple and joyful life of the […]
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