by KP | Dec 28, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
I often get low around the new year. Â Perhaps, like every media outlet in the world, I spend too much time looking back and not enough time looking forward. Â When I look back on a year, I tend to focus on missed opportunities, mistakes, not-quite-good-enough moments....
by KP | Dec 23, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
The pace has been two or three kiln firings each day this week, the last week before winter break and less than a week before student work goes on display for the twice-yearly art show. One kiln quit reaching bisque temperature mid-week. When I reached inside to...
by KP | Dec 8, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
Yesterday was my idea of a perfect Saturday. I arrived at the studio early, and spent a couple of hours by myself, mixing glazes, recycling clay, loading and unloading kilns, and puttering around the space. Â I finished one audiobook on my headphones, and started...
by KP | Dec 3, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
My latest post over at ALT/SPACE. I’m posting this in the midst of twelve-hour days, seven-day weeks, and not much breathing room. Â So be it. Â There are still a lot of good things to celebrate. Be faithful in small things, because it is in them that your...
by KP | Nov 16, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
My friend Joe told me a story recently about sparkles. He was sitting on a tree trunk that extended into the stream at a nearby nature preserve where we sometimes hike. Â On this sunny morning, he was relaxed, loosening his mind and listening to the soft trickle of...
by KP | Nov 7, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
This post is for my friend Jared Ward. Jared is fascinating. Â He’s a potter and a ceramics teacher who transitioned to the world of Educational Technology a few years ago. Â We collaborated on a presentation at NCECA last year – working back and forth...
