Ride the wave.
When summer started 4 months ago, one of the first things Darren and I did was go with all the kids – and their kids — to California. There were 12 of us together for several days and it was all we wanted it to be. We loved every minute. At the end of […]
Madame Zeroni and the mountain.
I used to make my high school students watch the movie “Holes” in class each year. It was one of the only ‘legal’ PG movies we could show back then that didn’t require a permission slip. But that’s not why I had them watch it. It starred a high-school-aged up-and-comer named Shia LaBeouf and […]
Risk Management.
Early in the morning in early January of this year, my mom and all my siblings received a text from one of my older sisters telling us her oldest son had crash landed a small airplane he was piloting. Realizing some of us are worriers (ok, one of us) she started the text with “J.R. […]
Envy and the deep blue sea.
We’ve all heard the statement attributed to Teddy Roosevelt that says “Comparison is the thief of joy.” And I agree. Kind of. There are a ton of reasons why comparing ourselves to others is unfair to us – especially because we tend to compare the worst in ourselves and our lives to what we […]
No. Matter. What.
Every day, while driving back into my neighborhood, I pass by a house with a basketball hoop in the driveway. And at least 9 days out of 10, there is a 12-year-old boy named Brennan underneath that hoop – doing a bunch of basketball things that I don’t know what to call and have no […]
