Important Thought

Last weekend the music video cast and crew for the song based on my book HIDDEN HISTORY OF SALEM was in Salem filming. Apparently someone called the police about the man who was playing Death in the video, telling the cops a “scary man” with “a real axe” was on…

I’m a research fiend. I admit it. I love the hunt for obscure facts, the thrill of discovery… far more than the tedium of actually writing the stuff down. So I spend ages sorting through ephemera on tangential subjects that will never actually imbed themselves anywhere but inside my brain…

For a well-reasoned, well-written essay on the reality of teaching in today’s public schools, please read: Thoughts on Policy Changes: “I teach elementary school. My students hug me at the end of the day. At the start of vacations, they tell me …”