by Dawn | Jan 27, 2016 | education reform, family, simplicity
My son’s been in the bathroom for a very long time. I thought there was a problem. Nothing’s wrong except the iPad has a full charge. In the olden days, we took real books into the bathroom–honest to goodness literature. Dickens is plenty long...
by Dawn | Jan 24, 2016 | gratitude, Life, nature, self-improvement, sustainability
Greetings from snowy New England. A friend from Jersey texted “Be safe!” I smiled. “This storm’s going to miss us,” I thought. The roads were clear and people weren’t fighting over the last of the bread and milk. That’s how...
by Dawn | Jan 23, 2016 | Teaching
“Kids today!” I hear this a lot. Teachers grumble about kids’ phones, inappropriate digital activity, kids and their Snapchat… My entrepreneur friends talk about the millennial entitlement–employees who want to leave at 5PM and own the...
by Dawn | Jan 21, 2016 | Rhode Island, sustainability
Yes, Squirrel Appreciation Day’s a thing. I saw it on Twitter–it must be true. The number one reason we have Internet is to discover all those things we never knew were critical to life. The second reason is to dumb our reading down to fourth or fifth grade...
by Dawn | Jan 17, 2016 | Life, motivation, self-improvement, simplicity
“If I had your time…” That’s what I hear from people who don’t want to get things done. “If I had YOUR time…” Always that dark tone, sitting halfway between dismissal and envy…as if it’s somehow my fault time’s cheated them… that I’m some space-time villain who steals...