Too often I think we get stuck thinking about what is not working or what can’t be fixed rather than what is possible.

You have to take that leap of faith toward a new idea or a new way of thinking and then lead through it.

It wasn’t too long ago when I started turning the pages of an emotional outpouring of saying goodbye to four boys into a book. Ok...it was a long time ago. That was in 2017. It’s hard to believe all the places that story has taken me. I actually did it. I wrote and published a book. Not a small feat by any means, but looking back, I sort of wonder what took me so long. Why did some of the pages seem to just stick in my mind and never make it on paper? Why were there so many d

I was recently on a long car trip to Nashville, TN for my son’s college day. I love listening to books to help pass the time. This trip I was excited to listen to a book by an author, Benjamin Hardy, who has really inspired me along my writing journey. Hardy writes books with strategies to encourage growth and transformational science. I was excited to listen to his newest book, Be Your Future Self Now. One of the interesting suggestions in this book was to write a letter to

Creating miracles in students requires unwavering belief and extraordinary effort.

As my students walked into class today, they were greeted by someone new. Dr. Peterson, the Head Zookeeper, welcomed the students into class. Wearing my safari hat, vest, boots, and my official nametag, I handed the students their new nametags. They were now zookeepers in training. We continued the role playing as I shared a letter informing them of a challenge to create a zoo. The zookeepers in training would need to select an animal, design a habitat that could be disman

I didn’t grow up with any pets. My dad always said, “We’ll get a dog when we have a barn.” I guess I showed him, because now I have a barn and I’m on my third dog. I also have a horse, chickens and cats. In all honesty, I never imagined this would be my life. Life just put me here. I’m enjoying almost every minute of it. There are some days when it just seems like a little too much. Like this week. What started as a simple water test, turned into the complete collapse of o