The Digital Bonnie

Yes, that’s our guy George and he is good with that gun, too good.  We get to watch him, step by step for almost every minute of the two hour flick, The American.  He is usually on his own, walking down lovely Italian streets, sleeping, eating in small bistros, looking over his shoulder, always.  He [...]

Aunt Ida wasn’t my aunt by blood and I haven’t seen her in years, but like anyone who spent any time with her, it was clear that a blood connection was totally unnecessary to feel her warmth and compassion. As a kid, I spent all my summers at my grandfather’s bungalow colony, Oakwood Cottages, just [...]

Finished and inspired! I am back Twittering with an National Writing Project community created in the month of July during annual Summer Institutes and at an NWP retreat in Austin, Texas. As I was twittering around last week, I came to a  conversation about The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller.  I clicked around for  a [...]

Just recently a Twitter buddy  mentioned the Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller  and I was interested, very interested.  There’s a lot of good whispering out there, remember the Horse Whisperer, and the Dog Whisperer?  A book whisperer, how perfect. As I began to read about a  young 6th grade  teacher’s passion for her own reading [...]

First of all, we didn’t go with high expectations.  There wasn’t anything else around, even though I would have been happy to see The Kids are All Right for a second time instead, Tuvia needed something fresh and he had fond memories of Jenn in The Break Up and I had vague memories of her [...]

What a big weekend for movies even with great August weather! Saturday morning, 11:45: We sat outside the main theater at the Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York,  patiently waiting to claim our usual seats (row F, Left A and B)  for an early performance of Cairo Time staring  Patricia Clarkson and,  as bonus [...]

I  recently read a pair of articles in the   NY Times: Lesson Plan in Boston Schools:Don’t Go it Alone and Inexperienced Companies Chase U.S. School Funds and I’m thinking a lot about a conversation I had last week with my former student/friend Alison and her partner Sarah as I continue to dig into the [...]

A new SI begins for the 10th time, 11th for me, if you count my first summer as a participant. Our early SI’s are wonderful but blurry memories, in fact, all of the past SI’s seem to blur into a lovely past of summers shared with great teams and stimulating groups of teachers. As we [...]

I’ I’ve been using my Google Reader for quite awhile now.  As I began to blog and started reading other blogs I needed organization and at the 2006 NWP Tech Matters Conference I learned about Google Reader, but I was on overload, so I signed up for it and left it until it made sense [...]

Hi All, I haven’t been back here in a week, but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been blogging. My daily blog is Moving Images with Words. My personal challenge is to write every day to a fresh photo and recently I’ve taken a few breaks from the daily challenge, but I have been blogging [...]