This year, at the senior banquet, I got the first shout-out. I don’t like being the center of attention, so I was both pleased and embarrassed. What does the graduating senior say of me, after two years in my class? “I remember Ms Schurman always used to say, ‘Wake up!” The purpose of education is, […]
Read More AlarmsOn Sunday, I lit a candle in each room of my house: bedroom (dresser), bathroom (shelf), and living room (windowsill). Usually I light one at a time. As I lit them, I thought, I am going to forget one. I will burn my house down! My mother always used to warn me about this. I […]
Read More LitTwice in the last month a kid has said to me, I used this word. And you taught me that word. I have that word now. When you teach an infant a word, the first time a baby says a word, it’s magical, video camera worthy. These were the two words: arduous and abyss. Apparently […]
Read More Bricks“For a few of my Harvard years, I taught drawing to architecture students, and during that time I became convinced that we human beings gravitate toward spaces that are metaphors for our inner lives.” –Martha Beck, Expecting Adam, Berkley Books, 1999.
My house has slanted ceilings, while my workplace has generous, soaring space above.
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