I am sitting here, in a friend’s apartment in Berlin with snow falling outside and fireworks going off, thinking of an appropriate way to sum up the past year. It was hard, it was a struggle, it was difficult and heartbreaking on so many levels for so many different people. In a year of hardship [...]
As I sit here eating barley soup I would like to focus on what I’m not doing: I am not writing a research paper I am not cobbling together a portfolio I am not getting high on Sharpie fumes while making a picture book I am not even lesson planning I am just sitting here [...]
Once upon a time, long before I was even a twinkle in his eye, my dad lived in a house in Los Angeles that had an apricot tree in the yard. One summer the apricot tree produced an amazing amount of fruit, and my dad, being the man he is, decided to make jam. My [...]