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The Study of Skiing (or how I feel about prizes, bribes and grades)
January 27, 2014
Celebrate the victories in your learning environment, but don't bribe your kids to learn, or study, because knowing the skill, having the knowledge, owning the strength and confidence that comes with that - skiing down the mountain on your own- is the reward.
A hat for January
January 23, 2014
It's cold this month, January cold. A perfect month for a really warm hat.
overwhelm (me)
January 21, 2014
Choosing a word of the year has always mystified me a bit. Not because I didn't get the concept. Words are powerful and having one simple idea to focus on seems good. But I've never had one, a word of the year that is.
Remembering my life preserver
January 19, 2014
I'm not adrift alone in the ocean, nearly overwhelmed by the waves. My life preserver is all the things in my life that carry and sustain me.
I'm all done crying (for now)
January 16, 2014
My days have lost their predictable rhythm and my usual coping mechanisms aren't working very well because life is simply not "as usual" right now. It reminds me of the early years with my babies.
For lovers and poets (and Damien)
January 13, 2014
We will pass and blow away my dear but while we're here, you with me and me with you, let's live this well.
At the beginning of this New Year
January 13, 2014
I believe it will be hard but I know it can be done. And for right now, that's all there is to write.
