Stones of Erasmus — for Teachers, Writers, & Philosophy Sprinkles Makers!

Hi, I’m Greig — welcome! Here you’ll find sharp writing, creative ideas, and standout resources for teaching, thinking, making, and dreaming in the middle and high school ELA and Humanities classroom (Grades 6–12).

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Showing posts with label rome. Show all posts

Showing posts with label rome. Show all posts

3.8.25

Wax Tablets & Ramen Dreams: Horace’s Hustle Through School in Ancient Rome

Horace In this post, I trace Horace’s wax‐tablet hustle and Cicero’s scroll‐toting swagger to today’s laptop lectures and TikTok chats, pro...

25.10.20

On How To Meet a Pontiff (Or, That Day I Attended a Private Audience with John Paul II)

When I was a Roman Catholic Seminarian, and the very young age of nineteen, I was in...

29.4.11

Travel Diary: Fountain Lover, 2007

Roma, Italia Roma is a City of Fountains Visiting Rome, I notice fountains. Lots of them. Rome is a city of fountains. Washing my face...

24.3.10

Photograph: Swiss Guards

In 2007, I visited the Vatican and took this photograph of two Swiss Guards. Swiss Guards Standing Guard near the Cancello Petriano in the...

10.3.10

Art Exhibit: Caravaggio at the Quirinale in Rome

Caravaggio's The Annunciation (c. 1608) The New York Times has a write up on a new Caravaggio art exhibit in Rome's Quirinale....

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