Teacher Tom

The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. ~Albert Camus ...

Anthony White (detail) Tim Berners-Lee wrote, “In an extreme view, the world can be seen as only connections, nothing else. ...

Everyone over a certain age has a 9/11 story.  Mine is that I was with my wife on a Holland-America Alaskan cruise.  We were...

At the beginning of each new school year we held mandatory parent orientation meetings where I told the assembled parents th...

Yesterday, I wrote about a dialog with a boy who gave me insight into myself as a teacher. That reminded me of similar stor...

I've sent hundreds of kids off into the world from the Woodland Park Cooperative School. For most of them, I was their f...

Years ago, a friend involved in the business of "up cycling" wound up with a collection of junk with which even he...