Live & Learn

The latest Chrysalis Reader wrestles with the question: What brings forth a questing spirit?This literary anthology looks inside the dynamic space where learning and teaching take place. A teacher learns a hidden truth from what becomes for him an absurdity -- the assigning of grades. A Midwestern community is forever changed by the courage of one student. Symbolic relationships between living and learning are evidenced in Virginia Woolf's neighborhood where a diary entry brings a writer's past into emotional focus. A writer learns how to give the perfect dinner party by dining in the summers with the John Dos Passos family.This collection of essays, short stories, poetry, and art suggests answers to some perennial questions: Which aspects of the learning process are universal, and which are individual? How do we foster lifelong learning? Why do we ask "Why"?

Robert F. Lawson’s poetry has appeared in Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Salt Lick, Plum Review, Phoenix, Negative Capability, Lullwater Review, Kalliope, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, and others. He is currently the major gifts and planned giving officer for the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. A co-editor for the Chrysalis Reader and former editor for Simon & Schuster, Lawson does freelance editing and writing consultation as time permits.

Carol S. Lawson holds a master’s degree in creative writing and literature from Bennington College. Her long and varied career in publishing has included editing a medical journal for Harper & Row, publications work for the U.S. Public Health Service and the Environmental Protectio

Editor's Note A Boatload of Knowledge

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Robert F. Lawson

Preface In Search of the Miraculous

xi

Robert Masters

PART I: THE SPIRIT ADVENTUROUS

Florida (poem)

I've Got It!

xiii

Ray Silverman

Meeting Virginia Woolf at the Station

8

(5)

Ruth Latta

``Let Me Show You How It Works''

13

(5)

Ralph E. Pray

Child Therapy (poem)

18

(1)

Alan Pucciarello

The Student You Can't Set on Fire

19

(4)

Healther Heilman

Playing with Heart

23

(5)

Richard C. Collins

The Writing Teacher (poem)

28

(1)

Lynn Valente

Victorian Home Schooling: Frank Sewall Educates His Daughters

29

(12)

Alice Archer Sewall James

PART II: LEARNING STYLES

Climbing Trees (poem)

When Birds Meet Again

41

(5)

M. Garrett Bauman

Suffer Fools Gladly

46

(8)

Don Rose

Mike Taylor

Most Poets Draw (poem)

54

(1)

Errol Miller

Juggling Your Smarts

55

(6)

Robert M. Peck

Exchange Student: Middle-School Teachers Educate an Academic Physician

61

(7)

Michael J. Lichtenstein

Europa (poem)

68

(2)

Stuart Arotsky

Body Surfing

70

(4)

Heather Taylor

The Opened ``I''

74

(5)

Andrew Flaxman

Husband Number One

79

(6)

Loraine Campbell

PART III: SCHOOL DAYS

The Whale Race (poem)

``New-Church'' Education

85

(7)

Naomi Gladish Smith

My Topographical Map of France (fiction)

92

(3)

Lani Wright

Creative Writing (poem)

95

(2)

Carol Lem

Scapegoat

97

(4)

Andrea Rogers

Grades as Zen Koans

101

(5)

Robert H. Herzog

Blind Typing (poem)

106

(2)

Eleanora Patterson

The Game (fiction)

108

(9)

John A. Conroy

PART IV: MENTORING

Mountain Men (poem)

The Tender Intent

117

(5)

Terry Marotta

The Game (poem)

122

(3)

Thomas R. Smith

Learning a New Language

125

(4)

Laura Lawson Tucker

Why My Grandfather Didn't Play for the New York Yankees (fiction)

129

(6)

David D. Jones

Alan's Choice

135

(4)

Marjorie Anderson

The Mind--Body Problem or My Dog Skippy (poem)

139

(2)

Neal Weiner

At the Bedside

141

(8)

Walter R. Christie

PART V: BEYOND THE CLASSROOM

Vacations (poem)

Dining with the Dos Passos: A Lesson in Hospitality

149

(4)

Rosalind Baker Wilson

The Education of William Page: Painting Soul into Canvas and America's Entry into Modern Art

153

(9)

Dino Adkins

In Movies, Blond and Thin Is Best (poem)

162

(2)

Marian Charles

One Hour (fiction)

164

(7)

Thomas F. Williams

Stuffed (fiction)

171

(4)

Joe Lunievicz

Lessons Learned from a Sanitized America

175

(6)

Don Kissil

When Spirit Moves

181

(5)

Lorraine Sando

Offerings (poem)

186

(2)

Corrine De Winter

A Thirst for Meaning

188

(6)

Wanda Luttrell

Up from Bed

194

Leatrice Johnson

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