“Wouldn’t this look better as a lake?” I was staring out into Yosemite Valley. Half Dome and El Capitan loomed in the distance—two natural landmarks accomplishing what I thought impossible: Make the giant sequoias gathered below look small....
For 12 years, Casey Nicholaw, ALADDIN director, sang and danced in multiple Broadway show choruses. Then, while performing in the Dr. Seuss musical Seussical, he had an epiphany. “I was in a cage on stage in a purple yarn suit singing backup—and I was like,...
We can no longer deny it: Tablets, cellphones and other mobile devices have infiltrated the classroom. Rather than fighting technology, educators have utilized it to enhance student learning. Yet all those devices were never intended to be used while sitting at a...
Recently, I traveled to China with friends. In a small noodle shop, we tried to order bowls of noodles and skewers of chicken. After much confusion, due to not speaking the language, we demonstrated slurping noodles and stood and clucked like chickens. Everyone...
Ulises Liranzo has visited the Sydney Opera House, sand tobogganed on a giant dune, and swam the Great Barrier Reef. He’s visited the Eiffel Tower in Paris and climbed Mount Vesuvius in Italy. But he’s not just a guy who likes to travel: He experienced all of...
