Hope Through Action: Social & Emotional Teaching and Learning
Place your hand over your heart, can you feel it? That is called purpose. You’re alive for a reason, so don’t give up. We observe World Suicide Prevention Day each […]
Entries by Lisa J. Lucas
Write Your Own Self-Care Manifesto
The author of the poem below intended it for academics. I’m reprinting it here for all of us, educators, parents, basically if you’re human you might relate. My Dad and […]
IKIGAI: The art of staying young while growing old
“Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years.” -Japanese proverb People born in the U.S. today can expect to live to an average age of about […]
2022 Possible Practices
2022 Possible Practices Listed below are 3 variations on the New Year’s Resolution theme that you might consider exploring. 1. 20 out of 22 in 2022 Practice Rather than continue […]
We Can Do Something
2021 has without a doubt been a difficult year. There is a collective feeling of missing what was, and an underlying hum of uncertainty and fear. However, do you ever […]
Stop Trying So Hard
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and […]
Summer Reading Remembered
If you’re an avid reader, you may find yourself forgetting the titles of what you’ve read. It’s like that file in our brain is full. Many of us record the […]
Looking for an Inexpensive Father’s Day gift solution? Try Listening.
What do you get a 93-year-old man that has been married 70 years and been a father for 60? The elderly woman at the antique store had a strong opinion, […]
The Ten Things: A To Do List for Restoration
Typically, as an educator, summer was a time for me to get caught up on the hovel my house had turned into. I would end every school year determined to […]
Another Mother’s Day – The One No one Talks About
Last week we celebrated Mother’s Day. I don’t know why, but there is never a year where I don’t think about the Mom’s out there that have lost children. There […]
