Mr Ferguson’s Classroom

Almost daily this summer, a child approaches me with two hands clasped over each other, concealing some insect that they’ve found on the playground. The first thing I saw children doing on my first day of teaching was actually catching cicadas with butterfly nets. This year, when the semi (cicadas) congregated in the cherry blossoms, I [...]

There’s a rice field just outside of my apartment, and when I last posted the plants just barely peaked out of the pool of water, so little that you could still see the clouds and surrounding buildings reflected in the fields. The rice is knee-high now, which means the summer has passed without writing about [...]