If there is one thing I prize above all else, it is generosity. I love the open hand, the quick yes, the ready spirit, the willingness to share. What I hate is hoarding, hiding, holding back. The [...]
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 [...]
Stories are the cornerstone of all human understanding. We make sense of the world and of new information through stories – how did these same things happen to other people? How did they [...]