February 13, 2010

Apolo Ohno said, “every day before you go to sleep, ask yourself one question: did you do every single thing you could today to make sure you did your best?”…

February 11, 2010

Here is an assignment I used recently with the women I teach in prison. I asked them to think of words that described their children. What emerged were what sounded…

February 10, 2010

Lazy blizzard blogging! After a lovely day playing Monopoly with the family in front of the fire (instead of flying to Rochester for my school visit…sniff), I’ve decided to let…

February 8, 2010

The article in the NY Times Sunday magazine section was about “Rewriting a bad memory to get yourself back on the slopes.” They say that revising a fearful memory is…

February 7, 2010

I was listening to a radio program that was debating various careers that were related to children. One of the guests stated that, considering children are the future (sorry, not my choice…

February 6, 2010

Whenever I’m on the faculty of a conference or I do a school visit, or even just in casual conversation, people will often express their burning desire to be published….

February 5, 2010

I love Serge Bloch’s illustration for this New York Time’s article from Feb.1. The article, by Tara Parker-Pope, was entitled The Real Body Language. It was all about how our…

February 4, 2010

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