Baking for a Cause: One Student’s Passion Story
At this point, I’ve made the Hershey’s chocolate cake recipe more times than I can count…
At this point, I’ve made the Hershey’s chocolate cake recipe more times than I can count…
The last MMS Junior High trip of this year was to Mt. Diablo State Park…
In the last couple of months, I’ve been able to connect with a number of my own past students and graduates of Marin Montessori School…
Math anxiety was already a hot topic 25 years ago when I was a student…
At age twenty-one, and five days after I graduated from college, I moved to Sumatra, Indonesia. Sent by the organization “Volunteers in Asia,” I spent the next year focused on educating Indonesian youth on HIV/AIDS prevention…
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First and foremost, forgiveness is an unburdening act of self-compassion; it makes us feel and live better.
My three children are as distinct and beautifully themselves as any three human beings can be – and yet they undoubtedly developed along a nearly identical track, experiencing the same lurches and regressions at roughly the same stages of development.
Most of us miss the first part of DeCartes’ most famous axiom. He actually said, “dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum,” which translates, roughly, to “I doubt, therefore I think, I think therefore I am.”
Turns out that the first part is super important. To doubt is to ask questions that pressure-test assumptions and choices.
Early childhood years are all about curiosity…