by Admin | Mar 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
I saw a robin today as I walked across campus, a harbinger of spring to come. In a flower bed in front of my home office window there are a host of white and green snowdrops emerging from under those leaves that were not swept away last fall. My heart leaps at the...
by Admin | Feb 21, 2010 | Children, college, creativity, Generation E, high school, Parenting, Uncategorized, young adults
Every four years the Winter Olympics come around and I am hooked. I love the speed of downhill skiing and bobsled races. I cannot comprehend the luge and feel distraught at the death of the young Georgian on the first day of these 2010 games in springlike gorgeous...
by Admin | Feb 13, 2010 | Children, college, creativity, Generation E, high school, meditation, Parenting, young adults
Whatever it is we are waiting for let’s call it “the next step.” The next step to the high school of our dreams, the college we know is exactly right, the graduate school that will crown our academic life, the position we have prepared for years to...
by Admin | Oct 11, 2009 | Children, college, creativity, E-model, Generation E, high school, meditation, Parenting, young adults
Stress is pervasive in our lives. Therefore it is not a question of how to avoid stress, but rather how to deal with stress. Stress does not lessen as you grow older, it simply takes different forms. Here are two examples. The high school juniors I teach are stressed...
by Admin | Aug 31, 2009 | Children, college, creativity, E-model, Generation E, high school, Parenting, young adults
We are in that mode again. Either already back at school, or anticipating the change from the summer months to the academic year. This is true for students, teachers, parents and anyone who is involved in any way in the educational system. Come the inevitable cycling...
