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5.10.19

Train Report: Riding the Lake Shore Limited from New York to Cleveland

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The Amtrak Station in  Cleveland is spartan by design. Why Take an Amtrak Train?           Why take a train when even a car is fas...
8.9.19

Getting Ready For A New School Year (And Seeing Lots of Dog Walkers in Jackson Heights)

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I love this photograph (even though I took it). If you look at the image carefully you may notice I used “tilt-shift”. By shifting focus and...
5.9.19

Reflection on Authority, Power, Gods, Teaching, Mothers, Sons, and Acceptance

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Before you read: In this teacher's journal I do a quick reflection on my old friend who once told me he tells his students: "You ma...
1.9.19

Teaching Eleven and Twelve Year Olds How to Conduct Online Research is Fun

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Working Every Day With Kids I'm a teacher. I don't have a classroom of seventy kids. My largest class has twenty-three students. I...
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28.8.19

Cinema as Portraiture in Dovzhenko's Zvenigora and the Ukraine Trilogy

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Anthology Film Archives in New York City is a fabulous place to watch movies. I try to go to their ongoing "Essential Film" scr...
22.8.19

Aesthetic Thursday: Marta Minujín Reloaded at the New Museum

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La Menesunda (on view at the New Museum) has several interactive features. La Menesunda - So, Marta Minujín created an installation in...

Aesthetic Thursday: Design Art from the Krewe of Proteus from the 1892 Mardi Gras in New Orleans

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"A Dream of the Vegetable Kingdom"  — Proteus Pageant of 1892 I have a wonderful postcard of a fairy man that my mother sent ...