When I was around ten, I discovered, all on my own, the pure joy of hitting a ball against a wall and batting it back again and again and again. I could amuse myself for hours doing this. I [...]

Walking out to my own garden to pluck lettuce last night, just before dinner, I stumbled headlong into an open pit, newly excavated to repair some leaking pipes. I had forgotten it was there. I [...]

One of the trickiest balances to get in teaching children art is the one between direction and imposition; between mastery and the imagination. I remember dissolving into tears in 3rd grade over [...]

Probably the only good thing about dying young is that you go out in a blaze of glory, accomplishment and the promise of great things still to happen. Nobody is tired of you yet; you have not [...]