by Dawn | May 9, 2017 | Life
Sunrise… Tried to sleep in yesterday. I can’t, so I got up to write, as usual. This view… I could stand at that window forever, for the rest of my life, and not a single detail would get old. The magic of NYC to me is this: in a city of 9M people, I...
by Dawn | May 27, 2016 | simplicity, writing, Zen
Coffee. Couch. Silence. Glow of the woodstove. “4 AM writing doesn’t get much better than this,” I think. “I am blessed.” I’m sad when the wood stove shuts down for the season. I’m losing an old friend. “Bye,”...
by Dawn | Oct 11, 2015 | education reform, self-improvement, writing
When I write, I write alone. It’s never a collaboration unless it’s work-based, and even then, I write my twenty, thirty, or forty pages first, then pass them over with a “What do you think?” before they get chopped to bits when...
by Dawn | Aug 19, 2015 | education reform, self-improvement, Teaching, writing
Last weekend I went to the John Marshall Media studios in Manhattan where I recorded the audiobook for “Don’t Sniff the Glue: A Teacher’s Misadventures in Education Reform.” I’m normally not starstruck, but then I saw the audiobook cover...
by Dawn | Jul 30, 2015 | education reform, writing
I pushed the button on the Kindle file. I was supposed to be waiting until Tuesday. “Please be aware that it can take up to 12 hours for English and 48 hours for other languages to be available in the Amazon Kindle Store…” the popup said....
