Ruth’s Truths – Ruth Morris
What better inspiration for my column, where The Arts is often my topic of choice, than a concert by world music star Idan Raichel at UCLA’s Royce Hall last night? I’ve loved the Idan Raichel …[READ MORE]
What better inspiration for my column, where The Arts is often my topic of choice, than a concert by world music star Idan Raichel at UCLA’s Royce Hall last night? I’ve loved the Idan Raichel …[READ MORE]
For the past five years or so, I’ve been comparing what my mom had been doing when she was my age. She died about a month after her 55th birthday, hence this preoccupation. This vantage …[READ MORE]
When I first became a teacher 10 years ago, I knew no different than to treat my students like corporate employees. Having just changed careers after 20 years in the business world, it made for …[READ MORE]
This essay is about “roots,” but not my “roots.” It does go back to “the old country,” though, to a part of Eastern Europe that was home to both my grandfather’s family, and that of …[READ MORE]
School started for us here in Culver City this week. In preparing my first day’s speech to this year’s students, I decided to speak not only of the four domains of English language arts, but …[READ MORE]
I had intended this submission of mine to be a travelogue/comparative essay about three beloved destinations I have visited. Instead, I was inspired by a particular arts-writing lesson I taught in my classroom this summer …[READ MORE]
I’ve been asked through my life: “why Japan?” It took me ten years to get to Japan after I became interested in Japan, at the age of ten. In 1968, there was a unit on …[READ MORE]
Describing our Pre-K/1st grade Japanese Immersion Summer Program at Culver City Adult School, I said recently that we are a cycle: we learn, we teach, we teach others how to teach, we create an environment …[READ MORE]
In the spirit of writing about one’s passions, this week’s article flows from my perceptions about “dance.” There are tons of scholarly articles about dance, and representations in the visual arts and literature as well. …[READ MORE]
By the time I became an English teacher, they didn’t call the subject “English” any more. I discovered that it was called “Language Arts,” until high school. “Language Arts” sounds closer to the translation of …[READ MORE]
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