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Greatness
Teachers do more than just teach. The most teachable moments are not the ones on the lesson plan. Teaching is what occurs in between the lines of notes you make for the day, in the tangents and side...
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Nurturing Your Nature
My sponsor told me something this month that has stuck in my head like a good pop song. “There is only one finish line in life.” It’s been my March mantra as I tackle each day’s whirlwind of work and...
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Changes
I am going through some changes. The catalyst was an 8-day bike trip with my son—a full week free from day-to-day worries. It was the best vacation I’ve ever taken. While touring, I thought of a...
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Crisis
A midlife crisis in men is usually associated with pony tails and sports cars. I grew a long and bushy beard. Not that anyone who knows me should be surprised to find me in such a transition. My life...
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Reap
Something profound happened on the week-long bike tour I took with my son. Enough to write a book, actually. I’ve written hundreds of thousands of words on this blog. And I’ve written hundreds of...
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Across the blissful threshold
I turn 40 today. Not that I timed up this post to publish on my birthday. It just so happens that I turned 40 on the last Monday of the month, the day in my calendar on which I publish a blog post....
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Proof
Whether you believe nature or nurture is more determinate of a child’s character, a parent doesn’t have an excuse. If nature determines who we are most than our genes offer with the best insight into...
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More than more
I’ve spent six months re-arranging my priorities. The hope has been to get more out of life. I don’t know exactly what prompted the change. But I became certain of the need to change things up after I...
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It all started with a child’s green clip-on tie.It was not your typical clip-on. It is the clip-on and the only clip-on that my son’s school accepts as partof its winter uniform. Purchasing it was the...
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I continue to find new reasons to do what I do. Without returning to the question of why I teach, my profession would turn into a static transmission of knowledge: I would become a textbook, not a...
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