There are certain things I always look for in antiques stores–rose-colored glassware, books with cryptic inscriptions, skeleton keys, teal-colored anything. I don’t usually buy these items, but I like to discover them. I feel a strange comfort knowing they exist in the world somewhere, even if that somewhere is a dusty shelf under a burned-out […]
Read MoreA month ago, I returned from a long overdue “summer” vacation to Washington. We started in Seattle, then clipped a corner of the mountains (Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens) before driving up the Olympic peninsula, ferrying across the sound to Whidbey Island, and dropping back down into Seattle. It was the farthest west I’d […]
Read MoreEarlier this week, I came across a thought-provoking TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson called “Do schools kill creativity?” In it, he advocates for an educational system that embraces all types of human intelligence and creativity. The title makes it sound like a downer, but the tone is hopeful. You can watch Robinson’s talk here.
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