November 13, 2025
First-Grade Beauty
What were — if any — the artistic consequences of surgery to straighten my crooked eye when I was in First Grade?
Category: Children
November 12, 2025
Kindergarten Beauty
Art isn’t about drawing. It’s about learning to see. But what kind of art do you create as a child when you can’t see straight?
November 6, 2025
So much beauty. So little time.
Keats wrote that a thing of beauty is a joy forever. But when does someone begin to recognize a thing as “beauty”?
October 23, 2024
Restoring Pathways
Neural pathways are essential for sensory perception, motor skills, and cognitive processes. When it comes to writing, however, they can block the truth.
October 4, 2024
Ignite — 10/4/24
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out of it.” — Erma Bombeck
September 26, 2024
Play Write
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.” — Carl Jung
September 12, 2024
Can You Hear It, Brother? — Part TWO
The turbulence of late 1960’s impacted everyone, even a Junior High School student from a small town in Western Pennsylvania.
September 10, 2024
Can You Hear It, Brother? — Part ONE
An award-winning fable and an award-winning science story . . . who knew where my school assignments would take me?