I recently dug up a paper I wrote back in grad school while searching my digital archive, prompted by a question about teaching math in elementary classrooms. It’s a bit of an outlier compared to everything else on this blog, but this felt like the right place to share it. After all, what’s a blog … Read more
It was the summer of 1988, just before moving upstate, from NYC, to start college at the University of Rochester. That afternoon, my girlfriend and I had gone to see Big. Tom Hanks plays a kid trapped in an adult’s body, and there’s a scene that had us completely captivated: Josh and Mr. McMillan are … Read more
My performance career began with the art of magic—a craft built on knowing something the audience doesn’t. Magic, in its essence, is about secrets. But sometimes, even the magician is left surprised. I share now an incident that not only shaped my career but deepened my view of magic performance, because I was open to … Read more