Writing

My wife and I stopped getting the daily paper about two years ago. The Sunday paper went away about six months later and while a few magazine subscriptions remain active, I for one will be opting out of renewing many of them as they begin to expire. It seems like many others out there, my [...]

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If you are anything like me, I am sure that you have days at work when you sit back and wonder “Why am I doing this?” or ponder thoughts like “I should be selling beach toys to tourists.” Lets face it, it happens to all of us from time to time. We allow our emotions, [...]

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Lately, most of my time has been spent working with my creative writing students on the development of a new online magazine called “WA Mash” (Worcester Academy Mashup) and in short, it has re-energized my teaching practice. In 1996 I began my first year of teaching and was given as part of my teaching load, [...]

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I want to thank Peter Baron of Admissions Quest for asking me to speak with him on the Boarding School Podcast about my work on WA Mash. Part of the reason I have been far to busy to post here on my regular blog is because much of my energy has been devoted to getting [...]

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If you are anything like me, the end of the school year is marked by key moments and regular rituals intended to assist in the ushering in of summer. So my box of summer books arrived from Amazon today. Most of these books I have not read yet. I hope to write thoughts and reflections [...]

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Connect with your senses I asked them. They struggled. It could be more about spring trimester and the weather, and sun, and impending potential of summer break, but for some reason, it felt like it was me. Three exercises, each designed to connect with their senses, emotional memories, purpose, feelings. Shelley wrote that “Poets are [...]

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