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Joy Lawson Davis, Ed.D., begins Bright, Talented & Black: A Guide for Families of African American Gifted Learners (Great Potential Press) with the poem “Genius Child” by Langston Hughes. Her book is indeed, in Hughes’s phrase, “a song for the genius child,” comprehensive in scope and unfailingly friendly in tone. Unlike so many books about …
I am very pleased to re-publish this guest post by Dr. Joy Lawson Davis on why she wrote her book Bright, Talented & Black: A Guide for Families of African American Gifted Learners (you can also read an excerpt of her book and my review). Dr. Davis and Bright, Talented & Black are making a real difference in schools and families across the …
[Note: Over the next few weeks, I will be moving some posts here that I had previously published on my first blog, Everyday Intensity. This updated piece was originally published Oct. 24, 2011.] Do you ever struggle with existential questions and concerns? Do these questions affect your writing? And just what are existential questions, anyway? …
“It was as if she had an appointment to meet the rest of herself, sometime, somewhere. It was moving to meet her, and she was moving to meet it.”— Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark Is it really almost three months since I’ve written here? Rest assured that all is well. During the past …
I am passionate about the topic of introverts, mostly because I have experienced and seen how a better understanding of what introversion really is in all its complexity can change lives. That is not an overstatement. People who have always thought of themselves as social misfits or somehow flawed suddenly understand themselves and the power …