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I couldn't really bring myself to post something for the anniversary of Newtown.  I was heartened to hear that the news media was abidin...

If you don't know what I am talking about ... you clearly haven't met me. I learned about freecycling when I was preparing for my ...

So, if you can begin to pack things *you don't need* weeks before the move ... doesn't that mean that you don't actually need th...

I have spent the better part of the last two weeks inside of a deep, dark hole. It would appear that in order to grieve, I need to stop, b...

At some point we need to have a serious discussion about the charter school *experiment* and what it means that we keep charging down this p...

Sometimes I wish I lived in New York .  This article is super lon g ... and I would like to say, "worth it," but I was a little ...

There are times when you read an article and you just cannot believe what is being reported there.  Often, I am staring at my computer and s...

I hid from the snow all day Thursday -- and when I had to be at my meeting on Friday morning at 10am, I realized I needed to start figuring ...

No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the...

As promised, it started snowing and then it didn't stop ... not sticking on the pavement or the asphalt, for now. 

Yikes ... so, if you happen to have an STD, but you cannot manage to get the courage up to tell your exes -- even though you may have infect...

Happiness  cannot be  traveled to,  owned,  earned,  worn or consumed.  Happiness is  the spiritual experience  of living e...

I would much rather see young folks DO something like this than just *protest* (read bellyache) about what they do not like ... feels like ...

Heading out today to spend a week at home ... it is bittersweet. I miss home ... I just want to spend one afternoon at the beach,...

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. ... A single act of kindness throws out roots in all direc...

I was seriously torn about what to call this post. Last Friday morning, I was having trouble sleeping. I think I had been awake since 3am ...

These days, most of the education articles get saved directly into the dissertation folder.  Some should also get shared, but with limited t...

The deep pain that is felt  at the death of every friendly soul  arises from the feeling that  there is in every individual  so...

This may be a repeat, and if it is, it is worth repeating. If we are not happy and joyous  at this season, for what other season  ...

Some will argue that it is thin-skin that makes this bullying , but I want to know -- when is it okay to make someone continue to feel uncom...