by Dawn | Jul 3, 2014 | parenting, Zen
Declan’s chasing me with a stick. “Don’t chase me with a stick,” I say. I know someone whose eye was poked out. Sticks are dangerous. “I’m not chasing you. The zombie’s chasing you.” “Zombies go slow.” Plants...
by Dawn | May 5, 2014 | education reform, Zen
I wrote the following piece for ConversationEd. You can see it posted there today. If you’re in the ed crowd, please take a minute to pop over there. Editor and creator Kathleen Jasper is starting the tough conversations. “Education is broken. We’re...
by Dawn | Feb 13, 2013 | education reform, satire, Teaching
There. I’ve done it. I’ve ordered business cards. I promised my partner in crime, a person we’ll call “Shawn,” because that is his name, that I would leave the ranks of losers and get them made. We were at our Educator-Entrepreneur...
by Dawn | Feb 1, 2013 | gratitude, martial arts, Rhode Island, simplicity, spirituality, Teaching
I am a terrible athlete. I studied martial arts for years–I worked and worked to memorize kata and I did a stint in tournaments. I was bored. You can only break stuff and do choreographed routines for so long. I was bored in martial arts, but also...
by Dawn | Jan 18, 2013 | family, parenting
I’m sitting here trying to clean off my desk so I won’t be tempted to bring this computer on my yoga retreat. But The Boy Who Doesn’t Sleep got up early. That’s what he does. He zeroes in on my productive energy using it as a beacon to show up...
