Question of the Day: What do you say when your son tells you he lost his virginity?”

A few months ago, my sons and I were driving the usual routes: track practice, art class, grocery store, and my older son says, rather suddenly, “Mom, I am not a virgin anymore.” I could tell by the way he said it that he was just trying to get it said, so it came out…

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Question of the Day: “How was your Mother’s Day?”

If you are a Generation Xer, like me, your parents are probably divorced. Our age group ushered in a unique time in American history. The divorce rate started to climb at record speeds. The parents of almost every friend I had growing up were divorced, separated, or experiencing some level of marital grief. It was…

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Question of the Day: “Why am I sooo much harder on my older son?”

On Wednesday, my younger son was sick. He threw up multiple times, so I let him stay home. It was a no-brainer: five am, puking all over the bathroom, white as a sheet. As soon as I was able to get my younger son set up on the couch to watch television, my older son…

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Question of the Day: “What was a defining teaching moment for me?”

Every school has tough students.  Students who struggle and don’t seem to belong anywhere.  The unlikeable students who teachers talk about behind closed office doors.  Teachers bemoan the fact these students are even in their class, and often these students are passed around as they try to find a place where they belong.  The first…

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National Poetry Month: “street corner”

street corner a man stands with his cardboard guitar on 17th Street in Boston strumming on his painted black strings I am the lost Beatle, he screams, the missing wonder  quick steps mask his true identity in the fast-moving trolley cars the lines move and shake We are all the man  his cardboard guitar capturing…

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Question of the Day: “What are my limiting beliefs?”

This is Day 4 of my working with Deepak Chopra’s “21 Days of Abundance-Meditation Series”. In this series on Spotify (which I highly recommend), he speaks about the limiting beliefs that are holding us back from abundance. Since I truly believe I can meditate my way into abundance, I was forced to question myself about…

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National Poetry Month: “Maybe”

Maybe we’re getting divorced because you put the stick of butter in front of the butter dish instead of in it, I vacuum and you just can’t see the dirt, I make more money than you and you stayed home to raise our boys. Or the long commute or the fact that you snore when…

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Question of the Day: “Should I drop out of my doctoral program?”

Honestly, I am not really trying to answer this question. I know the answer. I know it “like you know a good melon,” as the woman says in Nora Ephron’s When Harry Met Sally. There have been too many years where I vacillated from one side of a choice to another when, deep down, I…

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Question of the Day: “What did I learn about my own racism from the African American Museum in DC?”

Ibram Kendi writes extensively about the effects of societal racism on our communities. He likens racist ideas to rain. He says these thoughts, images, and beliefs fall down on us and make us all possible victims and victimizers. As a white, hetero, cis-gender female, there is a lot for me to learn about the various…

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Question of the Day: “How does being an Empath make me a better teacher?”

The answer here is simple. It makes me a better teacher in every way. Being able to feel other people’s emotions makes me better at navigating through a lesson. I can feel when I lose my class during a discussion. Or, even better, I can feel when I have their undivided attention. Their attention is…

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