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. […]
Favorite Museum….The Bardo–Tunis, Tunisia
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 […]
Some Thoughts Regarding Seamless Digital Integration
In a conversation by a neighborhood pool on a recent Saturday evening in Atlanta, I found myself trying to put language to something I have been troubled by for some time. As we find technology integration becoming more and more seamless, and as information becomes increasingly integrated through the funnel […]
September 11: I could not stop watching because I could not begin to understand
View of Mt. Pisgah from Asheville School (Photo: AdmissionsQuest) I read the following comments during the September 11th Commemoration Assembly at The Westminster Schools today. On September 11, 2001, I was teaching at a boarding school in the mountains of Western North Carolina, and I remember that I had a […]