Dear Friends- We just finished our annual Grandfriends Day, which is when our students celebrate their special bond and relationship with an older person in their life. This afternoon, Grandfriends poured in from locations far and near and quickly settled into a full schedule of activities with the children. This has consistently been one of my favorite events at Randolph, and I love watching our students as they walk hand in hand between two grandparents, nestle into an over

Dear Friends- Our Upstairs Spring Show was last Friday, and I could easily spend this entire note glowing about the final results. I could talk about the sophistication of the music, the inventiveness of the costumes, and the beauty of the set and backdrops. I could tell you about how each moment seemed stolen from a Wes Anderson movie, presented and performed in a style author Michael Chabon has described as “fabul(ist)”. The show was perfectly awesome and breathtakingly pre

Dear Friends- I have been spending my free time at home out in our backyard. The previous owners of our house had used the perimeter of the property as a dumping ground for all sorts of debris, but mostly as a place to throw loose rock. As I have begun the process of reclaiming that ground by raking and shoveling these areas out, I have simultaneously started to build small stone walls around… well just about anything I can justify putting a wall around! I’ve built a fire pit

Dear Friends - Before you read this note, I ask you to do one quick thing: Close your eyes and and think of a specific tree that stands out as being special and meaningful in your life. Were you able to find one? When I do this, I find that many trees spring immediately to mind. There is a wonderfully massive tree that I never learned the name of that arches over the pathway and hangs into the fish pond at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. I used to bring Bea and Otis there when they