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“Wait, What?”

A few years back, James Ryan gave a commencement speech at Harvard's College of Education where he advised graduates to question everything. His first bit of wisdom was what he called, "Wait, What?"That's when you'are telling your kids something, you throw in, "I need...

Learning To Be Me

Most of you who know me or who have been following me know I'm independent and stubborn. That's a double understatement. So, three weeks ago when I fell and broke my wrist, I knew I was going to need a lot of help. My dear husband stepped up to taking care of me along...

Honoring Our Mothers

I was going to write a lengthy post about writers and our inquisitive minds. And then I broke my right wrist. I am profoundly right-handed, so one-fingered typing causes great fatigue. I looked at the calendar and realized  the annual confluence of three important...

Tinkering

At dinner the other night, several friends bemoaned how their grandkids don't tinker. They don't take their toys apart. They aren't interested in how their bicycles work. They don't ask how things work. One of my friends thought it was because of the electronic toys...