As the world—both mine personally and more generally—shifted this year, I have been reminded of what it takes to make change and to maintain a peaceful, powerful center. In my reading I turned to the steadfast lessons of literature and, to my surprise, non-fiction. If any year called for how-to texts, this was it. IContinue reading ““To overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last”: 2016 book list”
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Extra Adults
Our house sits behind an elementary school, and when school’s in session, we can hear children greeting their friends before school and giggling during after-school games of tag. I worked in that school for several years, my office just across the hall from one of the kindergarten classrooms. On school days, children often peeked intoContinue reading “Extra Adults”