by Admin | Feb 19, 2011 | college, creativity, Generation E, high school, meditation, Parenting, young adults
Virginia Woolf said famously in 1928 at Girton when addressing a group of those first women to attend Cambridge University in Cambridge, England, the hallowed sanctum of male intellectual and creative life that helped to ensure male hegemony for the eight hundred...
by Admin | Jan 9, 2011 | apartheid, Children, creativity, fiction, human rights, Sharpeville massacre
© amazon.com 2011 Agaat, Marlene van Niekerk’s latest novel is worthy of being lauded as one of the great ones of any time and any place. Tolstoyan in its magnitude and impact, it is as ambitious in its themes as it is precise in its minutest details. Agaat,...
by Admin | Dec 13, 2010 | Children, college, creativity, E-model, Generation E, high school, meditation, Parenting, young adults
It is almost here, the December solstice, the one that coincides with the end of our calendar year. In the United States the winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, in South Africa it is the longest. As I have noted in previous blogs time is a concept of...
by Admin | Nov 6, 2010 | Children, college, creativity, E-model, Generation E, high school, meditation, Parenting, young adults
What is Time? Such a seemingly simple question but it can lead to intensely elusive searches for a concept that defies easy answers. Sure we have schedules, and clocks, and calendars based by our ancient forebears on their observations of the wheeling stars and...
by Admin | Aug 4, 2010 | apartheid, Children, human rights, meditation
If you have been reading this blog you know I am a teacher and a writer. From September to June I teach, and sometimes I write blogs about the lessons I learn in the classroom from my students and from the literature I teach. From June to September I think, reflect...
