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Sometimes You Get What You Need

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately going through boxes and boxes AND BOXES of “sentimental items,” Those are the very last category of the Kon Mari method, for those who have read or watched Tidying Up. Marie says you should save this cateogry for last, because it’s the most difficult category to let…

How HighScope and This is Us Changed My Relationship with My Father

Part of the reason I love what I do for a living is that it gives me opportunities to continue learning.  If one is going to train other people, one must be trained.  As I learn more and more about quality early childhood experiences, I reflect and learn more about how my childhood made me…

Bringing Your Whole Self

Lately my attention has been drawn to this concept of “bringing your whole self to work.”  It started, I think, with a particularly challenging day, at the end of which, I found myself frustrated with my not being “more professional.”  (The fact that I can’t even remember what exactly I did, likely means it wasn’t that…

She’s Single Again

So, yeah.  Those couple posts there where I bragged about how wonderful my new special someone was?  The nail polish, the flowers, the walks in the great outdoors?  Mr. Wonderful dumped me a week ago. Let’s recap, shall we?  Remember last week?  The week in which I broke a car with my face?  Yep.  I also had…

Of Course You Can

I was having a conversation with a friend the other day about life’s many challenges, and as I offered to do a thing for this person that might have made a challenge just a tad less challenging, the response was, “I can’t ask you to do that.”  I thought about this conversation later, and I…