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In my 20s and 30s, I was a highly ambitious person. At the end of my final teaching prac, I asked my supervisor, “How many years should I teach English before I apply for a leadership role?” She suggested five years would be a nice amount of time to hone my classroom...

“I write to know what I think…” Joan Didian Occasionally over the years, my mentor Jennifer has encouraged me to keep a journal. I can’t do it. I think it’s something to do with being an Enneagram 4 with a very strong 3 wing. (That sentence doesn’t make sense to many...

My body aches. My joints are very painful and they seem to be taking turns. Currently, it’s the balls of my feet and the first knuckle of my right pointer finger, but in recent days the pain has been in my wrists, my knees, my left elbow, and my fingers. The GP has...

The Hairdresser You know how I'm a bit of an oversharer? You should hear me at the hairdresser! Doesn't help that she is a former student of mine, that we have a whole bunch of mutual friends, and that she is just the sweetest woman ever. Do you tell your hairdresser...

There is a story in the Hebrew Bible (2 Kings 4:8-37) that tells of a woman from a town called Shunem who befriends the prophet, Elisha. The woman is wealthy and she has her husband create a little furnished space at the top of her home so that whenever Elisha is...

Small Kindnesses By Danusha Laméris I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walkdown a crowded aisle, people pull in their legsto let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”when someone sneezes, a leftoverfrom the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are...