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  • Picture Books Worth Reading As An Adult

    In these books, pictures and words combine to make the perfect escape into another world. These books are for children, but you will enjoy them, too. Try reading one of these, or a favorite from your bookshelf, to a child today, September 6, and celebrate Read a Book Day! I was an adult, teaching school

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  • 22 Immediate Results of Exercise

    22 Immediate Results of Exercise

    Not really excited about exercise? Can’t get motivated by the long range benefits like weight loss, or heart health? Maybe today you’d just like a little instant gratification. And one bit of exercise today increases the chances you will get exercise tomorrow. Here are 22 benefits of exercise that happen immediately, no waiting required. Do

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  • How to Get a Boost on Goals and Resolutions

    How to Get a Boost on Goals and Resolutions

    A year from now, you will wish you had started today. Karen Lamb September is just around the corner. It is a month custom-made for changes. Nights are cooler, days are brisker, and our minds are clearer, if only because the air is. Why not take advantage of it and renew your resolutions in September?

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  • Four Curmudgeons and a Hero

    cur·mudg·eon /kərˈməj(ə)n/ noun a bad-tempered person, especially an old one. The curmudgeons: Ove. 59 years old. Sad, cranky, unlikeable. Harold. 65 years old. Stifled, unsure, unemotional. But he walks to Berwick-upon-Tweed. Eleanor. 29 years old, but seems much older. Misfit, traumatised, lonely. Major Pettigrew. 68 years old. British Army Officer. Starchy. Correct. A Man Called

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  • Harness the Power of a Single Word

    Harness the Power of a Single Word

    You’ve heard of choosing a word-of-the-year. Popular ones might be abundance, joy, or simplicity. If you’ve ever tried it, you know how difficult it can be just to decide which word to choose. I was thinking all this last January and feeling like the decision was too heavy. On impulse, I said maybe I’d just

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  • It Takes a Village to Raise a Teacher

    It Takes a Village to Raise a Teacher

    After almost nine years away from teaching I went back to teach music at the same school I went to all those years ago. It was a strange sense of Deja vu walking the same halls I went to all 8 years of my formal education. I taught the upper grade classroom for 3 years

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