In response to an email I received from a student just two days ago and a conversation I had with a former student in the Spring of last year, I am compelled to add my two cents worth to an invitation from BATs (Badass Teacher Association) to flood Twitter with reasons teachers should not and... Continue Reading →
This article is too important not to share: Everything you need to know about Common Core — Ravitch, written by Valerie Strauss and published in the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/01/18/everything-you-need-to-know-about-common-core-ravitch/
Over the summer, the book One Size Does Not Fit All by Nikhil Goyal caught my eye. It crept up on a few different occasions before I bought it. It wasn't the title that first sparked a curiosity; instead, it was the age of it's author-- 17 years old, yes, 17. I did not read... Continue Reading →
Majestic Mirage, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic July 7-11, 2018 Traveling with twenty family-ish members to an all inclusive was a new adventure for our family. Our ritual summer vacation is a week to Hyannis, Cape Cod, a ritual we decided to depart from for a change. My husband and I had been to one other […]
This is our second trip to Las Vegas. We love it–a Disney World for adults! We stayed at the Elara, Hilton Grand Vacation Club (we have gotten so much mileage out of this membership- I highly recommend). Our room was a 3 bedroom corner suite on the 38th floor, and OMG! The view! And the […]
Just as my chef son, Ryan, was feeling like it was time to move on from Chicago, after living there and establishing a career as a chef for four years, an amazing opportunity came along to keep him planted in the hipster city. He had attended college in Boston, then New York. After graduation, he […]
Each year, we try to make a weekend at the Cape– just the three of us: Diann, Amy and I. This year, we finally made it there in October. We stayed with our ever- generous and humorous host, Diann. This year we saw beautiful sunsets, visited a brewery and had a delicious tasting menu at […]
Through my travel with EF Educational Tours, I met a guide, Alan Drake, in England who also happened to be an actor. When his British play, Kissing Sid James, was performing off-Broadway in NYC, he invited my family and I to attend. There, we met also met his co-star Charlotte McKinney Smith. From that point, […]
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