by Elizabeth | Jun 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.” ―William Hutchison Murray One time my sister and a friend were having a really hard time scheduling a lunch date. At this time one had a conflict, at that time...
by Elizabeth | Jun 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
In the morning yesterday on the playground after the bell rang for the start of school, my kids’ teacher said to me, “I’m letting them play. They love to play.” She said, “I realize watching them how we’ve stopped playing, as if we’ve forgotten how. But they just...
by Elizabeth | Jun 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
This year I’ve been teaching my way through seven key story steps by finding examples in memoirs, novels and stories to serve as models for our own projects—mine and my students’ books and stories. I’ve read the books I draw from, of course—Wild, by Cheryl Strayed,...
by Elizabeth | Jun 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
“The more important a call to action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.” Steven Pressfield My kids still...
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