Longer pieces from the valley. Essays, tributes, travelogues, reflections.
I left the valley in 1980 and spent the next forty years running other people's schools, which is a long way of saying I spent forty years comparing everything to one place. For most of that time I thought what we had been given was the bea...
I started keeping a notebook in my second year here, mostly because a class six student asked me how many kinds of bird lived in the valley and I did not know, and found that intolerable. Twenty one years later I still do not exactly know,...
There is a particular kind of person in this community and almost nothing is written for us, so I am writing this. We left after class ten. Some of us because of a board, some because of a parent's posting, some because of money, one or two...