Our plan for the day was already logistically challenging…catch an early train from Cambridge to King’s Cross, London, drop our bags into secure storage there, head to The British Library to see the rare documents room, walk to The British Museum by way of Tavistock Square, return to King’s Cross by the same route, pick […]
Favorite Museum….The Bardo–Tunis, Tunisia
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 […]
A Way of Seeing: Learning to Make Photographs
Headed toward Stressa on Lago Maggiore (Ross Peters) In advance of a trip to Italy two summers ago, my wife bought a entry level DSLR camera. We were going to be there about a month, so […]