The Kids Are Alright Spring 2016
At the end of each semester, my body image students write a process paper where they synthesize their learning- both personal and academic- for the semester. These papers are always […]
an open letter to my class on the last day of school
It was an easy moment. There I was helping Happy get dressed for bed and he was struggling to pull up his pajama bottoms after putting on lotion. He twisted, […]
It’s not you. It’s me.
Thank you so much for your supportive words last week as I shared about grief and the creative process (or, at least, my creative process). This week will be especially […]
Lately + End Self-Defeat
So, it struck me last week that while I feel that I’ve moved through some parts of the grief of losing my mom, there are other ways where I still […]
Tuning out the noise
I was driving an eighth-grade girl I mentored home from lunch. Passing by the university where I teach, I pointed it out to her. “What do you teach?” she asked, […]
There is no perfect. There is no imperfect.
Quick… name the opposite. Dark… Tall… Can lightness exist if there is no darkness? Can tall exist if no one is short? Continuums can only exist if there is a […]
To Accept: a verb list to support your journey.
I stopped when I saw it. It was a blue poster with infinitive verbs on it prominently displayed in the McColl Center’s Innovation Institute classroom where I was taking a […]
Penning your own prescription.
Like many women and young people in general, I didn’t grow up learning much about self-care. What I did know how to do was everything. All the time. I knew […]
Word up
It happens every year. The new year comes and we feel compelled to write a long list of goals for the year (or resolutions, if you will). Week 1 […]
Setting up 2016 to be the year of answered questions
2015. It was a year that posed so many questions for me. How will I live without my mother? How do I honor her legacy? What will I do for […]
