I used to be a person who apologized for a lot of little things: the shape of my belly the color of my teeth or the sound of my voice I used to be a person who apologized for a lot of big things: the size of my heart the depth of my awareness […]

via Used to Be — My circle game

If you’re new to this blog, you may not know that I don’t celebrate holidays. This is the time of the year when I have to defend myself against the naysayers who cannot believe for the life of them why I would forsake Christmas (*insert eye roll*), and be on the lookout for people who […]

via Staying Motivated (even when it’s hard) — The PBS Blog

I don’t want to make more out of this than I should, but in this case, meeting a student outside of school reminded me of one of the reasons I “retired” early–a badly designed one size fits (none but the elite few???) evaluation system. No, not because of this student, named D (not real name, […]

via On running into former students — Laura Lee

We all want that magic formula for staying and feeling young. For some, it’s exercising, eating right, no smoking or drinking, etc. For me, it’s watching things like anime, cartoons, and other movies and TV shows from my youth. We’re talking about the 70’s and 80’s, so that includes the classic Winnie the Pooh cartoons. This […]

via Take a trip back to your childhood through the Hundred Acre Woods — Mark Piggott | Author of the “Forever Avalon” Series