One brilliant kid grows up and cures AIDS. Another brilliant kid grows up and becomes the Unabomber. Why? You know why. You teach standard mainstream fourth grade. And your favorite student comes in without the homework again. “Actually,” he says, “I forgot. Really, I should...

This is your world. Exceptional students. The disabled and the gifted. You were always drawn to that side, the disabled kids. There are so many more of them than the gifted. Their needs seem so desperate, their gratitude so overwhelming. You’d always wanted to teach. You’d grown up...

YOU’VE SEEN HIS FACE ON THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE, THIS BILLIONAIRE CEO, who says, “A hundred billion dollars are at stake. There has to be a bug in the conference room. We’re fighting a hostile takeover, and they made some sketchy inside moves that hurt us. Somehow they scored...

Let’s talk today about power, a special kind of real power in our world. Let’s talk about a very powerful, yet invisible, person. A professional behind the scenes of all our daily lives. A professional who creates opinion, shapes our attitudes, our likes and our dislikes. In Hollywood,...

Driving down the street, when you see a disadvantaged person, do you cringe and look away? Do you step on the gas, with disgust and resentment, because seeing “losers” make you feel bad? Or do you slow the car, feeling pity for them; do you sense their desperation? Do you realize that,...

The fascination with pottery is as ancient as it is mysterious. Why is pottery so global, with examples found from the Stone Age, and even before? Imagine, the availability of a plastic material, its abundance and its strength, all free for the taking, simply dug from the earth itself. And yet how...

In the USA, there is a solid-paying profession that attracts over 3 million people, people of all sexes and ages and backgrounds, who have one thing in common— they crave a life of daily non-routine, with no one looking over their shoulder. These are people who crave new sights daily, new vistas....

The shotgun feels cold in your hand. The extended mag tube is heavy, leaded alternately with slugs and buck. The late summer sun is going down and the light is fading fast. You move slowly through the deep shadows, and you drop into a gully to watch and listen. Beer cans and trash. Mud. Meth waste....

The Academy Awards are coming up fast, again. For you out there who aspire to write movies, let’s look at the backbone of film creation. As a member of the Writer’s Guild West, Erudio voted in the WGA awards for best screenplay. Top of my list? UP IN THE AIR, PRECIOUS, HURT LOCKER. Each...

Do you want to change the world? Do you wonder why politicians don’t make the changes you see that seem so urgent, so obvious— the changes you believe desperately need to be made? Then maybe you should dive into the political process, and fight for those changes yourself. But, you say,...