Winter 2010. Who is that masked man? Don't know for sure. One of my boys. Some might call me a “glass half-empty” kinda girl. And I can’t deny it. I am certainly bent in that direction. When a school activity theme dictates blue Jell-O for snack, I can’t really get excited. Know why? Because I’m too busy filing through my mental index of laundry cleaners to determine which one best removes blue Jell-O from white shirts. And when it snows in November it’s hard to think of … [Read more...]
Growing Gratitude and Generosity
The students were completing on a series of their own yearbook pages, a school scrapbook of sorts. There were pages detailing their likes and dislikes, goals and fears, handwriting samples and illustrations. And sprinkled throughout the pages were thought provoking questions like this one: What would you do with a million dollars? I know what I would have written when I was in fourth grade: “I’d buy a lifetime supply of K-Swiss shoes, 3,000 Cabbage Patch Kids, a Swatch Watch with 465 … [Read more...]