by Admin | Aug 3, 2016 | apartheid, Children, Conflagration, mind structure, reconciliation, teaching tales, Uncategorized, young adults
MY HEARTFELT APPEAL DIRECTED TO REPUBLICAN LEADERS TO DITCH DRUMPF. LET’S PUT OUR COUNTRY BACK ON A PATH OF SANITY. HE IS AMERICA’S GREATEST FAILURE. For most of my adult life I’ve been an educator, as well as a freelance journalist and an author, an international...
by Admin | Oct 16, 2013 | Children, college, high school, Memoir, Parenting, reconciliation, teaching tales, young adults
From the New York Journal of Books web site The Last First Day: A Novel by Carrie Brown. Reviewed by Janet Levine | Released: September 17, 2013 Publisher: Pantheon (304 pages) For the past 30 years I have taught at a fairly large New England prep school in the Boston...
by Admin | Jun 25, 2013 | Children, college, creativity, high school, teaching tales
Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine by Simon Critchley Jamieson Webster Reviewed by Janet Levine | Released: June 25, 2013 Publisher: Pantheon (288 pages) “Stay, Illusion! is not a graceful gavotte but a gallop through the fields of thought . . .” Stay, Illusion! is...
by Admin | Jan 22, 2013 | apartheid, Conflagration, fiction, historical fiction, human rights, literary agent, Sharpeville massacre, South Africa, teaching tales
This is a cautionary tale told by an experienced practitioner (me) directed mainly at myself to heed my own words. Earlier this week I received copies of the Portuguese translation of my parenting book, Que Pai Ou Mae Quer Ser?. Definitely an “UP” moment...
by Admin | Dec 30, 2012 | creativity, meditation, mind structure, reconciliation, teaching tales, yoga
Winter Solstice 2012 Breathe, relax, center and smile. Let things come and go, and just let be. It’s not about trying not to think but about letting things come and go. Learning to relax, just be,center, and naturally meditate is a well known spiritual secret...
by Admin | Mar 16, 2012 | Children, college, creativity, Generation E, high school, human rights, Leela's Gift, meditation, mind structure, reconciliation, teaching tales, young adults
Several times a year, with permission, I use this blog space to share student responses to what they are learning in my classroom. This is the response of a high school senior to an introduction to meditation practice. 1. The Universal Breath The diamond mind of...
