A Comic Vision of
Great Constancy
Stories about Unlocking the Wisdom of Everyman
A Reading of “The Knight’s Tale”
and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Homecoming and Why It Matters

Part One: Does Not Wisdom Call Out?
Enough with Critical Theory run amuck! Let’s have something like a spirit week, a homecoming for the home team, for the Best of the West. Though the players play for the West, they come from all over the world, and they play for people of all colors, races, religions, ages, genders, sizes, and abilities. Homecoming is a notion with deep roots in all culture. Because our nation wasn’t founded on tribal loyalties, however, our homecoming celebrates the play of human beings in the world.
Homecoming is a big part of playing: it’s home base, a … [read more]


A Comic Vision in India

In January of 2015 my wife and I traveled to India for the first time. It’s one thing to stand in awe before the spellbinding beauty of the Taj. We have done that with other buildings in other places. It’s something else altogether to see thousands of people, mile after mile after mile, living along the roadsides in India. The experience turns our Western ideas of poverty to dust and ashes. Along with the shock of it, though, was a sense that, quite apart from how we might feel about what we were seeing, we were witnessing a functioning, albeit … [read more]


About Naples

     Naples Central School was a wonderful place to work. I am so grateful for the support I have received—both when I was actively teaching and now that I’ve written a book about the experience—from students, their parents, and colleagues. This is why my inaugural entry is “About Naples.”
    Naples is a small town four miles south of Canandaigua Lake in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State. It grew up in a valley around Naples Creek, one of the best trout streams in the region. For many years I coached the 7th and 8th grade … [read more]