... In the last row (yes, the one next to the bathrooms- the same row with seats that don't lean back). But you know what my positive thought is? I've got plenty of time once we land to calmly collect…
15Feb
14Feb
This was my Positive Visualization Board from 2009. Two things I hoped for came to pass so I am making my bigger and better 2010 board now. The two things that came true were an unexpected trip to see my…
13Feb
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?" http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrainBurps
11Feb
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 more like poetry than lists. Now your turn. I…
10Feb
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 Louis CK do my positive thinking for me. Thanks to…
9Feb
The silver lining of missing out on my postponed two-day school visit to Rochester due to the incoming blizzard? The $170 difference in airfare I was just refunded by JetBlue. Today's happy thought is as simple as that: I love…
8Feb
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 a mental process - an actual neurological thing - and…
7Feb
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 of cliches!), it's pretty astonishing that jobs to do with…
6Feb
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. The conversation will often go something like this (let's call…
5Feb
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 body listens to our mind, whether we know it or…
