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Teaching
When you teach, you have to think. You have to look at things in new ways. I like thinking new things, but I don’t always like acting in new ways. my class I have been teaching more than usual lately....
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Daily Prompt: Time Capsule
2012 is drawing to a close (3 weeks left!). What would you put in this year’s time capsule? collage for UMCOR I would put: My collage art to promote UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief). Am so...
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Try Enthusiasm
When I am enthusiastic about a subject I’m teaching, my students are too. If I tell the little ones, “You’re going to like this drama game!” They do. It may be a drama game they’ve played before, like...
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Reinventing Myself
So a few weeks ago, when I saw the play Tamburlaine, I reconnected with my fellow audience member and friend Amy. She’s been my friend for almost 20 years. We hung out many an afternoon at the Jones...
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Mindful Teaching
Just home from watching the Martian, a fun 3-D movie, suspenseful and relaxing at the same time. It’s been a long day. I started with my 80-minute 10th grade English class — our current topic is...
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Freelance work
I am working on a very short novel. I am working on my business. I am working on myself. I wonder if any of these things will work out. I believe that I already have everything I need. I try to know,...
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A View of the Hudson
april, cherry blossoms in central and riverside parks At the end of the day at my coworking community, New Work City, occasionally, we’d get jello shots delivered to our work stations. Now I get...
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Staying On Message
Over the last five years, I have worked as a videographer for filmmaker Jane Praeger of Ovid Inc. and Columbia University. This past summer, just a few days after my shoulder surgery, I assisted her at...
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Extreme Kindness
I was at a faculty meeting where the administrator kept raving about one particular teacher and I felt like pulling my turtleneck over my head. Why did she not praise others? Was that one teacher her...
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Signposts for Reading
A signpost is usually found at a crossroads. So says the definition. And in the teaching book Notice and Note, you’re given six avenues — ways to go or topics of conversation. What should we notice in...
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