Teaching your kids from home, doesn’t mean trying to turn your home into a school. You can adopt a school style schedule, you can send your kids out for rece...

It might not be the end of the world, but, it’s March and suddenly your kids are at home for the foreseeable future. Not only that, but there are no activiti...

The Coronavirus isn’t a race based illness. I feel like some news stories should lead with this tidbit of information. It is true that the outbreak began in ...

I would love to be writing about Skye and Pin Jun again this week. Explaining about Pin Jun’s struggles to accept that she could be falling in love with a gi...

It is a problem when I expect more from the students in my class than I can expect from the government of my country. I expect the kids I teach to share what...

Why do people think that their world is more dangerous now than it was thirty years ago? Last time I checked, there were no wars in Canada, life expectancy w...

If I were to write a thesaurus (which is not actually on the list of writing projects that I hope to fulfill), I would make perfection a synonym for poison. ...

The calendar tells me that another year is about to start. This time, it is not just another year, it is a whole new decade. (Does that mean we need to make ...

Christmas is here. Our tree is filled with an odd assortment of mementos and treasures, the carols are playing (classic and traditional not pop thankfully), ...

There are books that I read where the characters spring to life and take up a place in my mind and my heart. There are other books, where the message or mean...

There is a magic to coincidence that I just love. Whether you believe a coincidence is a sign of karmic fate, or just a random twirl of momentum from somewhe...

Some weeks I have to search and wonder what to write about in my blog. I’ll look at the news and think about conversations I’ve had recently and try to imagi...

What does it mean to have a friend? To be a friend? When I was a kid, friends were the people you hung out with, the people who had your back, those you coul...

About three weeks ago I asked my students (grade 3/4) what was happening on October 21, 2019 and they stared at me blankly. Some of them eventually guessed H...

Another week, another memory. I started my blog for the week talking about the upcoming federal election, environmentalism and the ever dawning end of the wo...

Sometimes memories are like little lifeboats that can give you just enough leverage to keep you afloat during a difficult time. I know it’s probably best to ...

Alone and lonely might sound like synonyms, but for me, they are often worlds apart. I have been in the midst of a party and felt completely lost and isolate...

Today, when I got up, there were two things I was looking forward to. Having lunch with two of my friends from my old school (who I’ve been missing a lot), a...

It’s been about thirty-five years since I watched the Olympics for the first time. It was awe inspiring. I remember marveling at the tremendous strength and ...

Habits are easy to fall into, but are hard to intentionally make. When I started the Grateful Smile Project, I was hoping to make feeling grateful and smilin...