Hope isn’t wishful thinking. It’s full of requirements.
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January 22, 2013 By
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Epiphanies, Not Resolutions
These are the questions of the New Year, and of the Seasons of Winter & Epiphany, as the days grow long & longer: Are you still seeking? What is your guide? What gifts do you bring?
January 13, 2013 By
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Rodin’s Thinking Poet
For Rodin the sculptor, every aspect of action, character, and spirit that he wanted to convey had to be embodied in the physical form of his works. It’s a reminder to us that we, too, are bodily works.
November 13, 2012 By
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Steve Jobs: Connecting the Dots
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
May 19, 2012 By
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World Read Aloud Day: March 7, 2012 — Register Now!
Change the world, story by story
On March 7, 2012, LitWorld will sponsor the third annual World Read Aloud Day, and they are hoping to reach at least a million people to help support a global literacy movement. How can you participate?
February 20, 2012 By
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Bugs Bunny Stole My Cognitive Surplus!
or, What's all the hubbub, Bub?
Bugs Bunny’s first appearance, July 27th, 1940, was nominated for an academy award.
July 27, 2010 By
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Every Title the Story of a Reader
or, How to measure a year of reading
The true measure of Donalyn Miller’s students’ reading is shown in the challenges they set themselves, the new patterns & experiences they explored, and the richness of the “you had to be there” moments they shared.
June 9, 2010 By
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March 13, 2010 By
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Madison Reads Leopold, 2010
“Yearly, the feathered tempest roared up, down, and across the continent, sucking up the laden fruits of forest and prairie, burning them in a traveling blast of life….”
March 6, 2010 By
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Little Things
or, The Lives of the Flu Cell
For me, microbiology always communicates a sense of secret revelation – it is so intimate, our very flesh & blood, and yet so intricate and strange. What a wonder to be able to see some small portion of the invisible entities that underlie our physical life!
November 14, 2009 By
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Watching the Cubs from Bahgdad
Here is what Memorial Day means to me today: it means remembering the connections we have to those who are elsewhere, remembering that the small things we enjoy here at home exist in a larger system of past and present service, sacrifice and justice.
May 25, 2009 By
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