My Red-Hearted Traffic-Busting Mac-and-Cheese Band

A particular music is needed to accompany me down Second, over to First, up the FDR Drive north, across the Willis Avenue Bridge, onto I-87 north, and, most crucially, past the dreadful I-95 interchange, which inevitably bottlenecks with thousands of vehicles leaving NYC to head west across the George Washington Bridge into New Jersey or…

It Seems So Simple

One week from tonight, I begin a new venture: teaching a graduate school class on the teaching of writing in the elementary classroom. >short interlude for jumping up and down with maximal happiness< In preparation, I just read a chapter from Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli's Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K–6. The…