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No matter what mistakes I make, no matter how crazy I make myself…I’m stuck with myself. Apparently my son learned this much earlier in his life than I did. I spent a good portion of my life fighting to be right. I’m not sure why I thought I needed to be right. I really thought […]
It’s hard for some people to see their family members and friends lose their capacity to complete activities of daily living. It’s hard for them when they are not recognized. It’s hard for them to visit and have their best friend not say one sensical word to them. Sometimes it’s easier not […] Thank you to Mechelle Perrot, first for this response to my blog entry on September 23rd, “Welcome to America:” Your reflections remind me of a project I got involved with this past June. I worked with some citizenship students and their teachers to get their stories for a “July 4th” UT article. It was […] I’ve already told you too much about this book…but I just can’t help myself…this is it, though. You won’t be able to get the full impact unless you read it yourself…trust me.
At the end of their journey, Otto and Rinpoche were joined by Cecelia, Otto’s sister and Rinpoche’s spiritual wife. They pulled into […] Tonight was open house at Hoover. We open our doors to parents and students and their community to come and see what Hoover has to offer and so that parents can meet and question and converse with their children’s teachers. Many incredible parents came to my classroom, many of whom did not speak English, many […] There’s nothing better – especially when you’re on a diet – than thinking about, salivating over, wrapping your tongue around the texture of a triangular, thick, heavy, crumb-crusted, cherry-chocolate-caramel piece of creamy cheesecake. I crave cheesecake . . . but alas, I have decided to alleviate the tension created when my clothes sttrretttccchhh over […] In my new two-story building, there are clean, bright, new bathrooms. There is a boy’s bathroom upstairs for students and a girl’s bathroom for students downstairs. There is a women’s faculty bathroom upstairs, and a men’s faculty bathroom downstairs. The first time I went to use the women’s faculty restroom before the students were […] From Courage to Change, Al-Anon approved literature: “It is important to express my idea. It is also important to accept the outcome. I can acknowledge myself for taking the risk to speak out, knowing that the results of my actions are out of my hands. Today I choose to trust those results to my higher […] In my dream, I was to be interviewed by a woman who lived across the street. I happened to go over to her house because I found her rabbit in the cabinet underneath my kitchen sink. In my dream, the rabbit was very unusual. It started out small enough to fit in the palm […] The Iraq war was necessary for so many reasons. From the rubble of the 9/11 plane crashes, emerged the heroes our nation so desperately needed. A cynical, sinful, needy religion-starved body of Americans came together as we watched Mayor Guliani embrace the tragedy. We watched firefighters emerge from the fog of ash, and every-day Twin […] |
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