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Where’s Your School On This Spectrum? Where Do You Want It To Be?

If you're thinking about branding and how to market your school (and who isn't these days?) then it's good to…

8 years ago

More Life in School

No one was surprised. The kindergarten discovered. Quite electrifying. The end of the year party.

8 years ago

Landfall in Unknown Seas

Some poems capture my attention because they have the twin virtues of being grounded in historical reality and yet reach…

8 years ago

Life in School 1-6

The English Department was in uproar. The head of school found it helpful. The faculty was concerned. An experiment in…

8 years ago

Tweet Tweet

Tweet Tweet There’s a blackbird in my mango tree and I think of Marley and singing songs of freedom I…

8 years ago

Mud Soup

Some culinary disasters can be repurposed. Here is Glen Baxter on polenta: And then there are times when you just…

8 years ago

Russian – American Romance

Russian - American Romance In my land and yours they do hit the hay and sleep the whole night in…

8 years ago

A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street

Here again - for the summer solstice - are those Wittenham Clumps. By the early 1940s Nash’s was in declining…

8 years ago

Home

Home no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when…

8 years ago

Under One Small Star

Forget the mother of all bombs and the father of all mankind - here is the ultimate parent of all…

8 years ago