The Meaning of Literacy

The Meaning of Literacy

What do we really mean by literacy? This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately, both as a writer and as an educator. We know what we mean when we say someone is illiterate. Often, to those of us in the West, that word is used to mean stupid, at worst,...

What I Read: 2014

As the holiday season bears down upon us, I wish you all a happy and healthy holiday and New Year. But I also wish for all of us a few minutes, sometime during the mania of the holidays, to sit down, quietly, away from our work and our computers, to just be with...