My five decades of experiences at Frost Valley have
taught me pretty much everything I know how to do – to be a patient
parent, to be an attentive citizen, to be a teacher who cares personally
about his students, and indeed to do whatever is in my power to preserve
what Frost Valley does for kids.
I’ve seen Frost Valley make the lives of kids better in
just two weeks. Seriously. I’ve seen it. Many times. Probably you’ve
heard me tell these stories. No space for those stories here, but click on
this video
and take a good look at these kids’ expressions – and you’ll
easily be able to imagine – or, from your own experience, remind yourself
of - the impact of this place on children and families. I’m
totally committed to it.
To kids whose families cannot afford two weeks at camp
in the summer, we at Frost Valley make $650,000 available annually. It’s
our goal never to say no to a family who wants to send their child
to camp – no matter the family’s economic status, nor the child’s ability
or disability.
We need to raise the funds to make this financial aid –
“camperships” – possible. My goal is to raise $10,000 before December 31,
2013. Will you please help me help these kids? Thank you so much for
considering it. Just click this link
and you'll see my Frost Valley web page, my goal, etc. Click
on "GIVE NOW" and make a donation. Thank you so much!
I'm personally very grateful for your help. Please help
me help these kids whose families cannot afford to send their children to camp.
This kind of support has been no less than life-changing and indeed life-saving
for some.
- Al
"I teach horizontally, meaning that while I might begin with a fixed idea of what I'm going to teach that day, I let it drift rhizomatically way off topic, often pulling it back when it gets too far. I rely on non-fixed materials to teach this way; the whole world is at my fingertips. Should I go off on a tangent about John and Rauschenberg and their love relationship as expressed in Rauschenberg's bed, an image of that bed is always a click away. From there, we can head anywhere into the non-fixed universe, be it film, text or sound. And of course, that always takes us elsewhere. As Cage says, 'We are getting nowhere fast.'" 
that anyone has yet got the imaginative measure of that terrifying day six years ago. Certainly our Tolstoy has not crawled out of the rubble. The closest we have, Don DeLillo, succeeded as an essayist-journalist ("In the Ruins of the Future: Reflections on Terror and Loss in the Shadow of September,” Harper’s, December 2001) but, to my mind, failed as a novelist ("Falling Man"). One reason, perhaps, is that the remembered emotion was instantly buried under a pile of cultural junk.' - Tod Gitlin in his review of Susan Faludi's The Terror Dream (written for 
