Last month, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia announced a major change to its editing policy. From now on, any revisions to the pages of living people must be approved by editors before the updates will be published. It’s a fundamental shift away from the wide-open, sometimes chaotic approach of allowing anyone to freely edit articles. And… Read more »
What has two legs and flies? If I can possibly help it, the answer is ?Not me.? As far as I’m concerned, the age of air travel is officially over. It’s just not fun anymore. It starts when you walk in the airport and see the line stretching across the terminal. You notice that the… Read more »
When L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, It’s a safe bet he wasn’t thinking about the Internet. Today, though, Baum’s book is a good parallel for how most of us think of the Net: just like Dorothy opened the door and stepped into Oz, we tend to view what happens… Read more »
Life Meets Learning As kids, it always seemed easy to answer that intriguing question: What do you want to be when you grow up? Eyes shining we reached for the stars, never doubting our career choice of fireman, ballerina, or superhero. As adults, though, the path to finding (and following) our dreams can prove a… Read more »
A certified poetry therapist, John Fox is a poet and author of Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity through Poem-Making and Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making. John conducts ongoing poetry groups in the San Francisco Bay Area and is an international leader in the movement of poetry therapy as… Read more »
A certified poetry therapist, John Fox is a poet and author of Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity through Poem-Making and Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making. John conducts ongoing poetry groups in the San Francisco Bay Area and is an international leader in the movement of poetry therapy as… Read more »
On Thursday, August 6, the social networking world was rocked: Twitter was down for two full hours. So life-altering was the denial-of-service attack against the micro-blogging site that the Wall Street Journal (the Wall Street Freakin? Journal) published articles on not only Twitter’s outage (and Facebook’s similar disruptions) but also interviewed celebrities on what the… Read more »
An exchanged glance, a hand brushing a hand, a slip of paper exchanged deftly and discreetly . . . Up until a decade or so ago the paper note was state-of-the-art technology for expressing secret longings and desires. Imagine if a teacher in today’s text-messaging world intercepted one such note, and found it to contain… Read more »
My impatience and doubt take the form of a bastardized childhood rhyme. ?Will you come, or will you not? You told me once, but I forgot,? plays through my mind on loop. Play, rewind, play, rewind, repeat. I scan the grey landscape outside the café window for any vague trace of the familiar; a hand,… Read more »
In all cultures and times, education systems enforce a degree of uniformity on pupils. During lunch hour, however, students are freer to express the outside culture of which they are a part. By comparing the lunchtime experience of Canadian and Japanese schoolchildren, basic cultural differences appear. Sometimes lunch seems like only a mirage on the… Read more »