Doris Lessing rocks

“I would like to say that there isn’t anywhere to go from here, is there, unless, like some exemplars, recent ones, I could get a pat on the head from the Pope.”

I wish I was more like Doris Lessing.  Doris Lessing rocks.

A highlight from New Year’s Eve

My poetry post

Many of my colleagues and those that I admire post Edna Vincent Millay.  I am not as literary as they are.  My poetry post is this:

Student, why do you dream of me
When you dream of your acre of trees?
It was agreed I came to burn leaves
It’s all I ever claimed to do
A ploughman i’ll never grow into

-from “Ultimatum” by John Roderick

Radical Rules

I’m guest blogging on the Empire State Partnership’s new blog this month.   It’s a series of Radical Rules based on this premise:

If I apply the dictums that I have learned as a theater director to my practice as director of education and to the efforts of the education program, great arts in education work is not only possible but is probable.

Artfully delivered (whenever possible)

If I hadn’t read it first on Brooklyn Rail, I think that this would have been the title of my blog: “slanted opinions, artfully delivered”.

For Christopher Durang’s Eyes Only

Confidential to Mr. Durang: I would steal your star before Mr. Mamet’s.