I’ve been reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Leonardo Da Vinci. In Isaacson’s conclusion he writes that Leonardo’s “life offers a wealth of lessons.” He goes on to list and enumerate what these are. Check it out:

Be curious, relentlessly curious. Seek knowledge for its own sake. Retain a childlike sense of wonder. Observe. Start with […]

I first ran across the idea of a “spark bird” in the book Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation by Kyo Maclear. It’s a simple, and hopefully familiar idea. You see a bird that you think looks so amazing that you become a birdwatcher, a lover of nature. This is a common story, and question […]

I played some jokes by Demetri Martin, Mitch Hedberg, and Steven Wright today in a few of my English classes. Why? Well, to practice taking notes, and looking at what complete sentences look like, and to try to turn a few of them into sentence frames. Also, we discussed timing, delivery, and the subjectivity of […]