Tag: families

Recommitting to What Matters Most: With Our School Community, In a New School Year

As I write this on 9/11 and recall what I was doing when the World Trade Center Twin Towers were under siege 24 years ago, my place in the world vividly returns in my memory. As the news broke, I was moving into a large meeting space to spend half of the day with twenty …

Parenting and Dealing with Illness

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. – Tori Amos With one dear friend parent recovering from surgery, another quarantined with her family for Coronavirus (COVID-19), and our family dealing with walking pneumonia, I’m reflecting a lot on the set of challenges facing …