This is my declaration of war on negativity. Bang. Bang.

What do I mean by a war on negativity? Where is this war taking place? How am I going to do this? When I say a war on negativity, I’m talking about a contagious gloom, about a poisoning of rooms with bad attitudes, about […]

Plural.

That they exist. World, thumb, others. That I am going to fight them. That I have been fighting them. That I am going to announce more specifically which ones I am talking about, and my proposed battle plans.

War rhetoric is everywhere. And the world is full of wars, literal and figurative. Much has […]

Jon Stewart closed his last show with a plea: If you smell something, say something.

I am a listener, a reader, a watcher. I don’t tend to interrupt others, or barge into conversations. As a teacher, a sometimes weakness I have is that I listen too much, too long, and don’t stop kids from telling […]

This summer I cracked a toilet seat by sitting on it. This event caused me to start exercising, that led to jogging, that led to losing weight, that led to participating in a 5K last weekend. (I didn’t walk or throw up.) Without cracking that toilet seat, and looking up my BMI, and feeling chunky […]