And That’s a Wrap-Summer of Reset

For the past nine years I’ve worked at an afterschool program called Common Ground Extended Care. In that capacity I was a teacher, the head teacher and then last year, stepped back down to teacher again. We had 60 k-5th grade kids and the idea was to create a program...

Summer of Reset Day Three

Resetting is slow. Before I get into my slow resetting, I wanted to say something about why I’m doing the Summer of Reset. I mean, what’s the point? I think humans need to occasionally reevaluate where they are in terms of their vision and goals. If...

The Summer of Reset

This is my summer of reset. I’m almost done with the revisions on a book that will go out this fall and it’s the best thing I have ever written, I’ve cut back my school hours and while I’ll be busy as all get out, it will be stuff I love doing. I’m still fighting...

Mindful Writing

In writing, as in so much of life, we often concentrate on the goal. We peck away at our keyboard, longing to finish the paragraph, page, chapter, book. When we finish the book, we find that our goals have moved further off into the distance. We now need to write the...