The Swahili word “safari” means trip.
In our lifetimes, we all embark on multiple safaris — trips that are sometimes real and other times, imaginary or metaphorical. What better way is there to keep tabs on our daily journeys (to places known and unknown) than through the written word? Join us on a daily literary safari as we travel and discover the world through books, art, movies, music, family, and more.Featured Stories
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Game On: Teaching Middle Schoolers to Think Like History Detectives
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Game On: Teaching Middle Schoolers to Think Like History Detectives
Posted on March 15, 2012 | No CommentsGet the scoop on a new online game based on the PBS series History Detectives. -
Elmo Learns to Save, Spend, and Share
Posted on April 17, 2011 | No CommentsAre kids too young to learn about money? Sesame Street doesn’t think so, as elaborated in PNC Bank and Sesame Workshop's new preschool financial literacy kit. -
Stay Tuned: Winners of the Cybil Awards
Posted on February 13, 2011 | 1 CommentI recently judged the 2010 Cybil Awards which are given each year by bloggers for the year's best children's and young adult titles. -
Making a Case for the Power of Print
Posted on July 27, 2010 | 2 CommentsPrint magazines make a case for themselves in a series of ads. -
Seven Years Later
Posted on March 19, 2010 | 1 CommentToday marks the seven year anniversary of the Iraq war. There has been very little coverage in the media. But I’m still thinking about Nina Berman’s series of photographs “Marine... -
The Brief But Wondrous Hiatus of this Blog
Posted on October 28, 2009 | 1 CommentI’ve been on a brief but wondrous hiatus for the past eight or so weeks, celebrating and treasuring the birth of my daughter who made her very special entrance into... -
Rx for Writing
Posted on March 5, 2009 | No CommentsI know that writing in my journal after a difficult, traumatic, painful, confusing, or frightening experience always makes me feel better. I emerge from my time of writing Source: Life... -
Like a Snail, I Begin to Blog About Bombay …
Posted on December 3, 2008 | 4 CommentsTake heart, those of you who feel guilty about not blogging enough or at too leisurely a pace. Per a recent NYT article titled “Blogging at Snail’s Pace,” there’s a... -
Absolutely Deadly Words
Posted on November 20, 2008 | 7 CommentsIrritating words. Clichés. Trite expressions. We hear them all the time and sometimes, we are also guilty of using them in our own writing and conversations. clangnuts Here, from Oxford... -
Dear Mr. President
Posted on November 7, 2008 | 2 CommentsThe day before the election, I wrote a lesson plan for The New York Times Learning Network [And, the Winner Is: Holding a Post-Election Discussion or Mock Talk Show] on... -
Data Crunching for Obama
Posted on November 3, 2008 | 1 CommentOriginally posted at Sepia Mutiny. This article buried in the Saturday’s New York Times reports that the Obama campaign has invested heavily in microtargeting. Microtargeting uses computers and mathematical models... -
In Defense of Comics
Posted on September 9, 2008 | 8 CommentsThough comics and graphic novels have been in the publishing spotlight in recent years, educational publishers and teachers still approach them with cold hands and tentative minds. I can’t tell...