“afterthoughts” in the Continuum

I write occasional columns for the alumni magazine of the boys’ school where I teach. Topics include the cultural history of the ice-cream truck, methods for banishing skunks, the current state of the blimp industry, and teaching.

• Chewing it over: what I learned about AI from an old pen (spring ’26)
• Seeing red: the finer points of grading (fall ’25)
• Floating an idea: mostly about blimps (spring ’25)
• Running joke: a cross-country alum looks back in exhaustion (fall ’24)
• On my dead plants (spring ’24)
• Not in high form: teaching fifth-graders (fall ’23)
• The odor of sanctity: our little skunk problem (spring ’23)
• Ice-cream trucks and the art of surprise (spring ’21)