I am a hugger. This week I’ve been at my first in-person conference since the COVID shutdown, a smaller statewide conference, but one that has been a professional home for me since my first years as a teacher educator. It’s been masked, busy, and full. For the first time in a long time, I feel […]
Month: October 2021
Living Authentically
I have been speaking my truth and living it. I have been holding space for ease and patience, comfort and calm. It’s different, but it’s also been transformational. I am realizing that peace and freedom aren’t what I thought they would be. At times, they bring amazing joy. At times, they bring me to tears. […]
Peace
For most of my life, I have been searching for peace, joy, and rest. Sometimes what we are searching for is within us all along. I have held tight to responsibilities for my whole life. Even as a young child, I felt responsible for the happiness of my family. Through family mythology and the position […]
My Parents’ Daughter
I have spent many years claiming that I am, above all, my mother’s daughter, and this is true. My mother raised me alone for as long as I can remember. She loved me far more than she loved herself. She sacrificed everything to give me a chance at a life that was better than her […]
La Force de L’Amour
In French, “force” can mean force, but it more commonly means “strength.” I’ve been thinking a lot this last 10 days about “la force de l’amour” (the force or strength of love) and how it allows us to move beyond the limits we place on our lives, to move through the grief we carry, to […]
The Other Side
Last week, I went to France. France is a strange home where I have never been a permanent resident. But it is my heart’s home. It is the place where I am able to most be myself and to be the self that I most want to be. It is the place where the rhythms […]
On My Father’s Passing
My father passed away on Friday morning. It had been a chaotic morning for me. I was exhausted. I was late to catch a train from Paris to Bordeaux because I got lost on the way to the Metro. My Metro pass had run out, so I had to get a new ticket and there […]