A while back, I met an older gentleman at the library book drop off. He had hiked it over by foot from the neighboring retirement village. Fair warning: I’m not su…
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All tagged Five Things I Never Say to My Kids and What I Say Instead
A while back, I met an older gentleman at the library book drop off. He had hiked it over by foot from the neighboring retirement village. Fair warning: I’m not su…
I try really hard not to harp on happiness. “Happy” is so very American, something valued very highly in this country. It’s all at once perceived as a right – due to us – and a destination – absent until we earn it. The truth is that Happy, as a fe…
Here’s why “Do your best” bugs me: because “best” to me is like infinity on the number line. A brief math review: you could st…
The message this sends when we say it to our kids, I worry, is not just that they ought to stick with the things worth striving for – the grueling track work outs to become fas…
Sike. I say this every other hour (And let me continue to be real: Pretty much every numbered item here is about what I REACH towards, not necessarily precisely what I’m actually doing… it’s my blog an…