Thaw

8 years ago

Thaw by Edward Thomas Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw…

Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School

8 years ago

Not a very effective way to get children to love school and enjoy math. But looks like it was an…

A Local Train of Thought

8 years ago

There's a comfort in routines and familiar sounds. Some towns have a noon whistle. If you've lived near a school…

Wood on the Downs

8 years ago

Wood On The Downs After Paul Nash by Martin Malone   We have been here before. Uffington, Hackpen, Grim’s Ditch,…

Art and Our Times

8 years ago

How will artists and writers portray this Trumpian time of disillusion, delusion and deception in which we now live? All…

Shirt

8 years ago

March 25th marks the anniversary of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire. In Shirt Robert Pinsky weaves in the Triangle Factory…

Consumed by Hate

8 years ago

Imagine being so consumed with racial hatred that you travel all the way from Maryland specifically on a mission to…

About Suffering They Were Never Wrong

8 years ago

About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place…

Killer Apps and Slideshows

8 years ago

Nobody has actually died from watching a slide show presentation. That whole Death by Powerpoint thing was much exaggerated. What's…

Time to Make it Happen

8 years ago

I did not attend the NAIS Annual Conference this year - first time for many years - so I don't…