Let me tell you about my September: I started teaching at school and began to have anxiety and nightmares about the undisciplined classes where middle school students were exhibiting every kind of disturbing behavior. Then I found out that I had to move out of my dream home in a couple of months. Not only… Continue reading I Had a Rough Month And This Is What It Taught Me
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Never Say Never: One Day You Just Might Surprise Yourself
It seems like all the things I thought I would never do because I wouldn't like them or wouldn't be good at them have become the things that are saving me. That gives me pause to ask: How often do we think we know what we need but we are dead wrong? Or maybe you… Continue reading Never Say Never: One Day You Just Might Surprise Yourself
What Daylilies Can Teach Us About Protecting Our Energy
When I first learned that a daylily flower lasts for only one day, I cried about the shortness of its beautiful life. But once I thought about the bloom as just one piece of the whole plant, I realized that a piece had to die for the good of the whole. And daylilies do not… Continue reading What Daylilies Can Teach Us About Protecting Our Energy