Plato’s critique of writing in his dialogue Phaedrus is my admittedly unlikely starting point for a how-to guide about how to teach online. This dialogue... Read more →
The whole world is learning remotely now and a lot of us are not happy about it. Meeting students via Zoom is not even a... Read more →
There are many things that make Charlie not your typical almost-14-year-old American male. One of these is his decided preference for things that are his... Read more →
The internet in my hotel room here in Athens suddenly stopped working this evening, right as I was updating my phone and starting to write... Read more →
I spent Wednesday obsessing over the Wikileaks/Julian Assange imbroglio (if that's the right word for it), Walter Benjamin's ideas about translation and film (I'm late... Read more →
The iPad certainly seems to have become The Hot Thing to have if there's someone on the autism spectrum in your household and, too, if... Read more →
We got gas and went to the bank before getting an early lunch Thursday morning, and then Charlie---off from school for Rosh Hashanah (he'd indicated... Read more →
Charlie will be back in school next Tuesday and Thursday he and I started working the transition in full force. I made a Back to... Read more →
I've been doing some blog upkeep/redesign and letting my inner geek indulge itself. I changed the banner photo from this to this and have been... Read more →
The significance of Charlie standing by our front door, raring to go on an evening walk yesterday with Jim (it was raining; Charlie pulled on... Read more →
We thought Friday would begin in an unremarkable way. Charlie had an early dentist appointment at the dentist he's been going to for a couple... Read more →
I've been pulling out this piece of paper upon which Charlie wrote "can't find it" at intervals as we use the laptop. He's chiefly interested... Read more →
After several months of typing the names of not-yet-forgotten PBS kid shows into the Search box of YouTube, I am pleased to announce that Charlie... Read more →