Patrick Ness is very, very good at beginnings.
If Puccini was good at endings, he was even better at beginnings.
This was not a man who hid his emotions from the public, especially at beginnings and endings.
During my tenure at Beginnings Nursery School I witnessed the development of many long-term projects that reflected the context of living in New York City.
Ms. Shelton, who lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Beginnings, a nursery school in Manhattan, said she hoped to own a dance center one day.
"Every school has its own version of a supply closet, but I don't think this is the same thing," said Robin Koo, a studio art teacher at Beginnings.
In the matter of beginnings, middles and ends, novels are generally very good at beginnings (falling in love, getting married) and wonderful at endings (suicide, murder and divorce) but not so good at middles.
As an illustration, we observed improvement in self-regulation skills at the end of the school year in our program by a 4-year-old boy who had moved from Brazil, was the son of a house cleaner, spoke no English, and arrived each morning at Beginnings with a cup of coffee.
