On Friday, I found myself walking down the hallway of my school, minutes away from picking up my students at Spanish class, when I heard over the intercom: "Hello? Hello?"…

My school has a brand new playground. It's lovely. The students are enjoying it quite a bit. A couple of kids expressed concern over an apparatus that seemed a little…

One of my goals for the last five years has been to write at least 100 letters each year. Old-fashioned, snail mail letters,  written or printed on paper or cardstock…

Just a few days before our first Speak Up Storytelling show of 2023! SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2023 at 7:00 PM at the Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library Great stories!…

A team of MIT scientists - yes, a team - conducted an experiment using more than 1,000 Oreos and a rheometer to test if there is a way to reliably…

I was sitting at a table in Reagan International Airport, pecking away on my computer, waiting for my next flight, when a man began screaming somewhere down the terminal. It…

On Thursday, I spoke about writing at a TEDx Talk in Natick, Massachusetts. Later, during the reception, I was approached by a woman who told me that years ago, she…

I was completing a checklist on a child to determine if they required additional academic support: Hundreds of questions designed to identify a child's strengths and weaknesses. Question #68 asked:…

Our April vacation comes to an end today. Tomorrow I will return to my classroom and my fifth-grade students, who do things like place decapitated Kristoff from "Frozen" on my…

While I was in Victoria, British Columbia, at a speaking gig, Elysha took the children to Newport, Rhode Island, for a couple of days to explore the mansions. On the…