Is This Really True?

Is This Really True?

Today when I hear on the news, “Scientific research tells us…” I say, “Let me see that study!” The graduate school I went to was on the cutting edge of an area of educational research and I was taught to ask a number of questions about scientific studies to confirm...
Continuing to Cope with COVID-19

Continuing to Cope with COVID-19

We continue to be living in a crazy time. The coronavirus has yet to go away and no one knows when it will. This has created a lot of uncertainty for many people – when will schools open up and how will that look, when will people go back to work in-office, when will...
The Way Out of Fear

The Way Out of Fear

I think that the power of art is the power to wake us up, strike us to our depths, change us. – Jhumpa Lahiri The first time that I saw this sculpture by Ukranian artist Alexander Milo, it stopped me in my tracks. I immediately resonated with its simple, but...
Everything Happens for a Reason

Everything Happens for a Reason

I truly believe that everything happens for a reason.  It would be nice if that meant you could count on everything that happens to you being positive.  Unfortunately, life doesn’t work that way.  I know some of my best lessons, and “nuggets”, have come from my...
What Does Your Story Say About You?

What Does Your Story Say About You?

I recently re-read a book I’ve read a couple of other times in my life. The first time in my mid-twenties, then again in my mid-thirties. It’s a novel about a father’s journey from bitterness and despair to acceptance and redemption after he suffered a horrible family...