I’d like to offer a long-overdue apology to my friends the trees. I love trees. In my younger days, I will admit to physically hugging them. When I was about seven years old, one of my favorite places to spend hours playing was in the twisted trunk of a fallen, but still-living tree in the…
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How Fast Is the Future Arriving?
Mix tapes. They were the best. I used to spend hours and hours putting together what I consider to be some of the world’s best music mixes ever. Ever. Without dispute. I was to the mix tape what a modern deejay like Deadmau5 is to electronic dance music. The advent of the recordable CD (or…
Classroom Visitor Hits and Misses
Sometimes I think I can understand what it must be like to be the chief of programming for a major television network. You just never know for certain how the audience will react to a new television show. What appears to be a surefire hit might sink like a stone in cement. The show you’re…
A Different Kind of School Supply
Last week I touched upon my anxiety at the beginning of the school year about never having the right amount of the necessary supplies for my classroom—specifically: tissues, which seem to disappear in January faster than raindrops in the Mojave in August. But have you ever found yourself buying a jacket for a student to…