Empathy isn’t just for the bad times.
I remember walking into a party shortly after I learned that my book was going to be published. The party was full of people I hold near and dear to […]
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I wrote 152 blog posts to reflect and grow and share and love.
I started blogging on December 5, 2015 right after getting home from my annual state conference. And, here I sit, 152 blog posts later. One published book later. Um, wow.
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I didn’t go into education for summers off.
I didn’t go into education for summers off. I went into education because I discovered this fire within me to help school be a more need-satisfying experience for students. For
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The Day that Self-Doubt and Fear Won
The other day, I had one of those no good, terrible days. One of those days when the monsters of self-doubt and fear in your head seem to be confirmed
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A Year of Growth, Learning, and Working on my Servant’s Heart
I spent some time this morning reflecting on the 2017-18 school year. My twentieth year in education. My fifteenth year as a school leader. My fourth year as the principal
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Lens of Happiness
Sometimes balancing happiness, fulfillment, and contentment with the realities of the world around us and the enemy that is right inside our own heads feels like juggling. And I cannot
True confessions from a principal who STRUGGLES with the last month of the school year.
Confession: I am a school principal and I struggle with the last month of the school year. Why is that, you ask? First of all, I think I have just
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Anger isn’t just anger, it is so much more.
Anger. It deflects. It covers up. It blames. It distracts. It grabs attention. When I was listening to Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly recently, I had to pause and reflect as
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So Very Thankful for Today
Today we will celebrate our grandpa. He turned 90 on April 19th. He was born in 1928, which was the first year that Mickey Mouse appeared in an animated short
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THIS is my awkward stage.
The other day a friend asked me what I was hoping for with publishing The Path to Serendipity. She said, “Is it for money? Or, is it to say that
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