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...
by Admin | Mar 3, 2012 | college, creativity, fiction, historical fiction, human rights, literary agent, meditation, Sharpeville massacre
Here is a progress report (as promised) on the process of getting a book to the market place if you have not been scared off by all the negative information on the demise of the publishing industry as we know it. Ebooks are the rage, but as I blogged previously,...
by Admin | Dec 10, 2011 | creativity, fiction, teaching tales
Not sure when last I read a novel that has so annoyed and intrigued me as the one I read last night and this morning, The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes which is the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize. What were the judges thinking? This is a 2011 feeble old...
by Admin | Oct 17, 2011 | Children, college, creativity, fiction, historical fiction, literary agent, teaching tales
In the New York Times October 17, 2011 the following article appeared. I’ve been blogging on this topic for months, and obviously, the future is now here. This is a positive and welcome development for all writers. Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out...
by Admin | Oct 16, 2011 | creativity, meditation
The title words of today’s post are by Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot in his famous Four Quartets. Last weekend on a glorious fall day I was in our nation’s capital. The area around the mall is indeed living proof of Eliot’s idea that “Time...
