A Writer’s Road: Creativity in the Classroom

photo thanks to weareteachers.com Last week I shared some thoughts, via Philip Pullman, about the importance of kids’ access to stories and poetry. Today, I can take this even further when I share with you an article from the Gallup Poll blog called Teachers Who...

A Writer’s Road: Creativity and Neuroscience

Okay, I’m a geek, but two things I think about quite a bit are creativity and neuroscience. In my own writing and my teaching through Writing Through, the question often arises, how does someone be creative? What is that spark and where does it come from? My own...

A Writer’s Road: Esperanto

I wrote my first blog post nearly twelve years ago. Much has happened since then, of course, and my blog has reflected it all. Recently, the reflection is a sporadic shimmer – that is to say, every once in a very long while I’ll post something and then...

What I Read This Year: 2018

Well, let’s face it. 2018 was a pretty terrible year in lots of ways. There were two interesting results of it all, though. First, I barely did any creative writing. Yes, I wrote magazine articles, fundraising proposals, administrative memos, thousands of...