The Good Student Changes the Good Course
I call my courses meta-courses. I use the term to help me remember what I want to accomplish as a teacher. When I think of…
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A Newsletter for All Audiences
There’s nothing like a conversation to get the year started off right. I’m optimistic about 2018 because of the amount of work I’m producing. The…
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The Big Picture is in Our Heads
We bought one of the girls a train for Christmas and it brought together a lot of ideas for me. First, it was no surprise…
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I Hate the Word “Content”
I’m not fond of “material” either. I use them in conversation and writing, but not often. Both words make me think of polystyrene peanuts. They…
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The Name Tags are Necessary
I hear it from both students and clients these days. They dismiss social media as narcissism, self-absorption. Social media is a messenger. It’s a phone…
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Hiding in the Movie Theater
In the film Almost Famous, the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman plays legendary rock and roll critic Leslie “Lester” Conway Bangs. Hoffman as Bangs has one…
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Christmas Cards Were the First Facebook
The wooden double doors from the kitchen into the dining room of my childhood home were louvered. Always open and pushed against the formal space’s…
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Don’t Unplug the Messenger
America asked for the Internet. Big business and marketing didn’t lure us online; established companies and brands came late to Silicon Valley’s game. Individual citizens…
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My Mother’s Moment
The Paier Art School in New Haven, Connecticut holds portfolio reviews once a semester during their open house weekends. I kept this knowledge in the…
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We Think in Drafts
Every summer for most of my life, my father’s side of the family held their reunions at a lake cabin in New Hampshire owned by…
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