I found myself waiting a lot this December. In fact, a number of people, classes, and events I had been in the process of scheduling got put on hold until the new year. The result: I found myself waiting for January. So I waited. I went on hiatus for the first time in...
Two weeks ago, I had an amazing conversation with a young adult student of mine. We were talking about body surfing, and he was explaining to me how it is done. I said, “Wow, you must be really good at it; it sounds like you know a lot about it.” He...
My entire life, I felt bursts of emotion at key junctures of my development as a person; as a child and a student, these emotional bursts occurred when I was asked to do something that, for whatever the reason, felt like it was a compromise to my well-being, my...
