Category: creativity

Moo Goo Gai Pan: The Story Of An Heroic Young Goose

    (With Lots of New Words for Young Readers to Discover & Delight In)  Our Tale Begins A long time ago in China there lived in Fujian Province an extroverted young bird named Grimaldi Goose. He was a keenly intelligent, exceptionally sociable gosling, equally comfortable in the air, on land, and in the water. …

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Incomparable: The Nobel Prize of Bob Dylan

  I got my back to the sun ’cause the light is too intense I can see what everybody in the world is up against      – Sugar Baby   The Nobel Prize for Literature at last has been awarded to the most important and most influential author of the post-World War II era.   …

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The Boy Who Was Odd

Chapter 1. Oddball Benjamin learned he was Odd when he was in the fifth grade. He never had fit in well with other children. Especially with other boys. They thought he was too small, too clumsy, too gentle, and too bookish. Each year Benjamin grew, but every year he remained smaller than his classmates. Not …

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Boys in Trouble: An American Epidemic

  Boys in Trouble I WANT a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one.                              – Lord Byron, “Don Juan” For many years I have directed one-week immersion workshops in …

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