One of my students was adding blue colored pencil filling to his Thomas the Tank Engine drawing, and he said, “People used to make fun of me for liking this stuff.” “I’m sorry,” I said. “That’s not right.” It’s the end of April. The kids wanted to do their online learning thing, and I was […]
Read More Friday at Schoolring around the rosy pocket full of posies ashes ashes we all fall down I felt such depression last week. I had forgotten how heavy it is. Though I was there to see and be with kind and generous people, for some reason it was there that the weight collapsed on me. Sometimes it does. […]
Read More we all fall downRub a dub dub Three men in a tub The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker Nursery rhymes are important because rhyme is important. Human language developed rhyme (most likely) because it helped us learn to associate one thing with another, to give us a sort of mental jingle to remember. For so many years, […]
Read More dub/tubI thought Sardi’s was a tourist trap. And I thought I could not afford it. My way of going to see Broadway shows has always been to eat a slice of pizza beforehand, because after paying for a ticket that is all that seems prudent. I happened to be meeting a friend in Times Square, […]
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