Education and parenting. Helping your child with reading, math, science and getting along with others.
I learned about Raksha Bandhan from Rajani LaRocca’s Storytelling Math picture book, Bracelets for Bina’s Brothers. We used her picture book for the August 2021 Multicultural Children’s Book Club. I also learned about Raksha Bandhan from my friend, Vaibhav Yadav, who trained at my boxing gym. He’s India’s Unified Welterweight boxing champion, a.k.a….
The British Museum is a testament to England’s history as a colonizer. Many of the artifacts here are in dispute including 900 Benin bronze artifacts taken from Nigeria, the Parthenon Sculptures, a collection of marble architectural decoration from the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, and the Rosetta Stone of Egypt. Recently, there has been a movement for…
If you are going to teach kids programming, do it gently. You can scare kids away from coding for life if you approach it in the wrong way such as by forcing them to do it. If your child is showing resistance to coding, hold off for a few years until your child is older…
My First-To-College Mentee was interested in storyboarding as a career in the entertainment industry. Storyboarding can be the ultimate creative job — think Star Wars and who got to imagine that world with all the various types of aircraft and weaponry! But even commercials need storyboarding as a way to communicate to the client what…
Well, it’s been thirty years in the making but my sister’s piano teaching method books, Keiko and Sam’s Musical Journeys, are finally ready. I did the illustrations thirty years ago as well. In fact, it’s so long ago that I barely recognized some of the drawings. Noreen’s wrote Keiko and Sam’s Musical Journeys when the…
The New Orleans Holocaust Memorial Sculpture is an artistic visual prayer in memory of the Six Million Jews of Europe and those millions of other victims who were tortured and murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators from 1933-1945. The sculpture is composed of nine panels, each with different designs. As you view the scupture…
This was my first time visiting the Tate Modern in London. My daughter, Grasshopper and Sensei, stayed a few extra days when visited London a few years ago to catch a specific show there before it left. She’s an art student at Rhode Island School of Design so she has a good nose for good…