Montessori Interview – Russia, Fall 2026

Montessori Interview – Russia

A few months ago, I answered questions, sent from Elena Timoshenko via the internet, and the results (in Russian) are available online publication shared throughout the country. To see the original CLICK: Russian version

 

The editor added pictures that she found online and my old friend Valentina Zaytseva Nosenko, head of the Montessori School of Moscoe, helped me identify picture and make sense of the whole. Here is a picture of me with Valentina (and in the Middle Noon, one of our students in the first Montessori training center in Thailand in 2006). Here is an English version of what was published in Russia. Please share with Russian speakers anywhere.  

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Mongolia and Japan, 2026

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Mongolia
This is my third and last time in Asia as retirement approaches, and such a stunningly beautiful and interesting trip it was. The meeting with three of the four people in the whole country who hold AMI teaching diplomas, took place in a Tibetan restaurant with authentic süütei tsai—or milk tea, as popular in Mongolia as in Tibet, Sikkim, any country with a herding tradition where the daily staple was a hot drink made of yak butter, tea, and salt. Tibetan Buddhism has had a great influence in Mongolia, for example the dancing and costumes in the short video below that I took at a culture performance in the capital, Ulaanbaatar. Continue reading →

Mongolia May/June 2026

Mongolia May/June 2026

After too many hours to count, I just experienced a San Francisco Bay Area stopover to see the new Matisse exhibit at the  MOMA with old friends; a 13-hour flight over Japan to the mainland of Asia; an overnight (or was it “overday”) rest in the transit hotel, in Seoul, South Korea; flying over Beijing, China and the Gobi Desert; finally I arriving in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. There is a 15-hour time-difference from California and the next three weeks will be too busy for blogging, but I can at share some of the first day. Continue reading →