When people call for public education to go “back to the basics,” it reminds me of “readin’, writin’, and ‘rithmetic,” essential knowledge for all time. Imagine a one-room, frontier schoolhouse, something out […]
This was one of those moments where time layered.
Midnight on New Year’s Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present. Whether we’re aware of it or not, as we countdown together to it, we’re sharing the burden of our history and committing to the promise of tomorrow. –Hillary DePiano
I had a sudden notion of why history is such a mess: humans do not live long enough. We only learn from experience and have no time to use it in a continuous and sensible way. –Martha Gellhorn
In 1918, my great-grandmother, Frances Pengelski, was married with two babies under two years old, living in relative poverty in Brooklyn. I was fortunate to know my nana well. The year I […]
The Gloria Sirens 