The first story is about an outstanding teacher, one whom I hired in 1994 to teach language arts to 6th and 7thgraders. Gwynn Spencer was a unique personality for many reasons, not the least of which was her passion for storytelling. She had a great friend in Joe Hayes, an award winning author and teacher
Call it what you will, scaling down can be more challenging than scaling up. What do you keep and what do you sell, disperse among family members, give away or recycle or throw away? It’s an issue faced by those of us in the older generation who are making plans for the future that can
Look at the synonyms for the word transition. It is a rather amazing list that attempts to describe a process or an experience. change, passage, move, transformation, conversion, metamorphosis, alteration, handover, changeover; segue, shift, switch, jump, leap, progression; progress, development, evolution, flux. I chose three words which, for me, capture the essence of a transition,
Making an executive decision requires more than using that part of your brain called “executive functioning” which can be defined as “a set of cognitive abilities that control and regulate other abilities and behaviors. Executive functions are necessary for goal-directed behavior. They include the ability to initiate and stop actions, to monitor and change behavior
The September equinox occurs the moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator – the imaginary line in the sky above the Earth’s equator – from north to south. This happens either on September 22, 23, or 24 every year. This year, 2014, it happens on Tuesday, September 23 at 2:29 UTC, which for me in
Photosynthesis is as natural to plants as eating is to humans. In fact, there are some similarities with several significant exceptions. One is that plants seldom overeat. They take what they need, water from the ground through their roots, CO2 from the air and sunlight to turn water and CO2 into oxygen and glucose. The
