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I talk a lot about being intentional. About deliberate practice, deliberate design, deliberate teaching. And then, when life got in the way, and I forgot to rebook my travel to/from the Adobe Education Summit and accidentally had the most unintentionally intentional six days of travel that I'd never dreamed of. A summer that included traveling to and running debate judges at NSDA Nationals in Richmond, then one week later traveling to Orlando to present multiple sessions at I

The exterior of one of the three Adobe corporate towers. It is less than twenty-four hours since the Adobe Education Summit wrapped, and I am writing this on a train headed home. Not a plane. A train. (#RimmeyOnTheRails) What was initially an economically efficient method of traveling because I forgot to book a flight, has become the best decision I've made about travel in a long time. I've now found that the best way to both clear my mind and process new information at the

I did not expect to have my entire worldview surrounding art and creativity blown away at ISTE, but here we are. Manuel Herrera said something I wish I had heard as I was limping through all of my theatrical design classes in college (I was the rare speech/theater ed person who was in the program for the speech part). Manny said: STOP THINKING ABOUT DRAWING AS AN ARTISTIC PROCESS. IT IS A THINKING PROCESS. I wrote it in all caps in my notes because it deserved all caps. I am

I am going to keep this one short because the thing itself was short. This tease turned Claudio from one of my favorite Adobe Evangelists into the DEVIL! At the end of an Adobe Education booth session at ISTE 2026, our presenter, Claudio Zavala, showed us a one-minute and fifteen-second video. It was a 3D-animated short, the kind of visually rich, layered, genuinely beautiful piece of content that you would normally assume required a professional animation studio, significan