The Bardo in Tunis is my favorite museum not only for its vast collection of Roman Mosaics, but because my daughter and I had a great time there together on a very hot July day in 2010. The first to arrive there in the morning, we had the place to ourselves for the first hour. […]
Learning to Teach on Devil’s Courthouse
(I started my career as an English teacher at Providence Day School in the fall of 1988. The previous summer I worked at Camp Pinnacle in Hendersonville, NC. My experiences as a rock-climbing instructor had a profound impact on how I view teaching. Devil’s Courthouse, so named by the Cherokee who inhabited this region of […]
The Haywood Gap Stream Discovery
View from Tennent Mountain of Black Balsam, Mount Hardy and Little Sam’s Knob (Ross Peters) In the summer of 2000 I drove into Pisgah National Forest almost everyday. Living in Asheville, NC at the time, I decided I would focus 6-12 mile walks in those parts of Pisgah that I either hadn’t been in a […]
The Role Models We Need For Our Students
If this teacher-as-silo approach was ever a good teaching strategy, those days are gone.
Scholarship as the Antidote to the Addiction of Comfort
(After a brief welcome, I gave these remarks earlier this evening at the National Honor Society and Cum Laude Induction Ceremony at The Westminster Schools.) If I told you that I could take you to a place right now where every desire you ever have, EVERY DESIRE YOU EVER HAVE, […]