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…
11Feb
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…
4Feb
You may wonder what one has to do with the other but if you saw my half-full laundry basket, you'd know. http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrainBurps
3Feb
To me, the world is divided between those who love candy, and those who are not tormented daily - nay, hourly - (minute by minute?) at thoughts of "Where can I find my next piece of candy?" I am…
2Feb
"Yo," the first twenty-something said to the other. "Audio books are like, how lazy do you have to be to listen to a book?" I was dying to ask this guy why he was so angry at audio books.…
