(Portrait, Ron Dre). Today is my third Writing Workshop class and the first time I’ll have all 12 students together, or so I’m told. I’ve asked them to zero in on their ideas for our forthcoming book: Tales Of Bishop Maginn High School.

Ron Dre is a gifted freshman who loves Greek Mythology and is writing a story based on Poseidon and his adopted son.  I’m loading him up with books. Today we’ll work on confidence and story structure.

If you wish to help my work with Bishop Maginn, you can do so via Paypal, [email protected], or by check, Jon Katz, Bishop Maginn, P.O. Box 205, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816.

Good news, we raised the $1,000 for the new drama department of the school to put on the school’s first play in 30 years, “Happy Hollandaise,” for Christmas. Thank you. We’re on a roll.