Team Gray!

Back in the mid 90s, I assembled a wooden doll house with Yanni, my oldest child, 4 at the time. I found the project so engrossing that I made several kits of furniture after finishing the house. I wanted the project to go on an on. . . This summer, I pulled out a bunch [...]

Some of the crafts this summer have overlapped, like origami and building a dollhouse out of tiny bricks and mortar. I’ll write of the particular joys of the latter experience at another time. Now for my latest obsession: Origami. I have a few childhood origami memories. I think we did a unit on Japan in [...]

I listened to a lively debate on the radio recently. It was between talk show host Laura Ingraham, and Baltimore Schools CEO, Dr. Andres Alonso. Dr. Alonso has had amazing results in his low performing school district. He has some radical ideas for competing with the seductive drug culture in his city. And by drug [...]