Science teacher

I have spent, in the basest sense of that word, hours of my God-given life working on a document required of teachers here in Jersey. That...

I watched a honey bee spend a few moments of her last few hours alive licking the edge of a basil leaf I had torn from the garden. What c...

Danse Macabre , Michael Wolgemut, 1493 woodcut Summer is winding down. The shadows shift, the dead start to stir again, knowing their c...

The garden is dying now—without the energy to keep itself together, a plant falls apart. As the summer sun slides off its altar, reminding u...

I used to be a doc, the real kind with tongue blades. I am now entering my 11th year of teaching. Students often ask me why I left medicine...

Nagasaki, again--because we must never forget. On August 9, 1945, just over 2 1/2 pounds of plutonium was converted to energy 1650 fe...

I live in NJ, and we do not start for another month. For the rest of you, I've been told the season starts sooner. So here's my a...