I bet we have all had a Fletcher, someone who wanted the best from us. Or is it someone who wanted the best and got it in the worst way? […]
Who was your Fletcher? I’m listening to Charlie Parker and thinking about #Whiplash. You must see it.
January 4, 2015 by
Top 10 things to listen while beach walking and you don’t have a great audiobook* This is the summer of Swell.
July 3, 2014 by
I usually listen to audiobooks while walking in solitary happiness on the beaches of Fire Island. Look — i took this picture this morning, isn’t it beautiful? So far […]
The fine art of UNFINISHING, or why I still like MOOCs.
December 31, 2013 by
I intend to run for 30 minutes today. But it is hot and I stop at 25. I pick up the latest issue of The Economist, drink deeply of an […]
Am I the last person to have heard about purple squirrels? Where has that concept been all my life?
July 2, 2012 by
If you’re as ignorant as I am, and you google purple squirrel, and you get past the silly sightings of real violet-colored animals who might have gotten into the color […]
I went looking for signs of positive change in higher education, and found too few. #macaulayhonors #highereducation
April 8, 2012 by
This week’s Chronicle of Higher Education.
Could Prague have been more wonderful?
March 9, 2012 by
The publication of SALA’S GIFT in Czech was a cause for celebration; that I was there to celebrate in Prague made it all the more wonderful. I had a wonderful […]
Best e-book and web developer in town happens to be Matt Stine: read how he made R.L.Stine even scarier on Kindle! http://bit.ly/qcE3ME #ereading
October 13, 2011 by
Next tune-in for Chef Elisabeth on Food Network: AUG 11 9P ET ~ AUG 12 12A ET ~ Aug 18 7P ET #Chopped
August 9, 2011 by
Here’s where Twitter writing is useful training. As I edited this, knowing it would feed Twitter, I reduced and reduced….like, I don’t need a headline that alerts “Anyone who missed […]
Peter Weinberg’s first published article….why not start with an op-ed in The New York Times?
July 17, 2011 by
I think I’d be laughing my head off even if it hadn’t been written by my son. Check it Peter’s article about moving home after college. Funny that with all […]
Kushner and Kirschner together again….sort of…..
December 23, 2010 by
Letters to Sala by Arlene Hutton will open at Rollins College on February 11, 2011…and Tony Kushner will be there a few months later. OK, so we’re not exactly on […]