One of my first jobs after college was to teach French and coach lacrosse at a boarding school. What I didn’t know, was that I was also going to be one of the lucky faculty who got to take groups of freshman up into the White Mountains for a three-day orientation weekend where there would be much with the hiking, carrying cast-iron frying pans in your pack and sleeping on the ground. The prerequisite for this high honor seemed to be that you were under … View Post
I love beginnings. (I also love a great ending, but that’s a story for a different day). Starting a new day, a new week, a new month—or the big momma of them all—the new year, provides (for the optimists among us) the chance to make things a bit better, improve upon those aspects of our life we’d really love to kick to the curb. I have certainly tried any number of approaches to maximize this opportunity: resolutions, lists, promises, resolves, gym memberships, and the like, … View Post
