I SEE Iran… and its People
My eyes and my heart and my soul are focused on Iran and its peoples… ALL throughout the world! I SEE the celebrations and the joy and the tears and…
The Dangers of Belonging…
Yesterday, a student told me, “I have never met anyone who worries so much.” WHAT?!? ME? WORRY?!? I spend so much of my time and energy and efforts LOOKING calm,…
My Life is in Your Hands…
This is a PSA… that is SUPER IMPORTANT to me! If you drive a car, please read these words and register them in your brain. This is literally life and…
Winning Is NOT Everything…
Recently I have been having a “conversation” (emails back and forth) with my Dad… and we are on opposite ends of a political discourse. What I have noticed about myself…
Making MORE ICE to fight ICE…
I am sorry but this does not make any sense to me… In parts of Minneapolis, private citizens are setting up barricades and checkpoints and running people’s license plates and…
Please Just Take Care of Each Other…
I don’t really care what side of the aisle you are on or how you are perceiving the events happening in the world at the moment… ALL of us are…
The Importance of Discussion…
Every Friday, I post something on Facebook and I post something on this blog. Sometimes they are the same post, and sometimes they differ. Today, they differ. They differ because…
ICE In Our Communities…
As a person who works in public education and cares deeply about ALL the students and staff with whom I work, I am acutely vested in the health, safety, and…
Fear…
I have spent a lot of my week feeling “disconnected from myself.” Earlier this week, I had an amazing conversation with a young girl in 8th grade and we talked…
MAGIC… (of Water & Relationships)
This world provides SO MUCH MAGIC… We all just need to stop sometimes and soak it up… quite literally sometimes! On New Year’s Day, I was lucky enough to spend…