memory

Back to the Future in Search of Doris Bass

I'm early but the staffroom is already blue with smoke and full of strangers who know each other. A row…

6 years ago

Artistic Pretensions

When I was ten or eleven my primary school class was taken on a trip to Blenheim Palace. Big excitement…

6 years ago

Forgetfulness

Forgetfulness The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking…

7 years ago

Light Blue Touch-Paper

Growing up in the UK in a certain era meant that you got to play with fireworks. I have no…

9 years ago

Susan Engel on testing tests

From the NYTimes Scientifically tested tests ...there are few indications that the multiple-choice format of a typical test, in which…

14 years ago

Coal smoke and kippers

The farmers’ market is full of strange squash and gourds and pumpkins of every color, shape, and size. Autumn – …

15 years ago

Setting your socks on fire

Looking through old PDS school photos  – pictures of children working with tools, wading waist deep in muddy ponds and…

15 years ago

Wintry mix

There's a good article in the local paper on the inexact science of school weather closing. Our recent spell of…

17 years ago

Memories: “…one cannot get another set.”

You see, there are all those early memories; one cannot get another set; one has but those. Willa Cather, Shadows…

17 years ago