Part One: “Once I learned how to take everything as a new challenge and a new experiment and become open-minded enough to just see what happens I became free from a lot of limiting beliefs.” — Thomas Le Coz I found this quote at a critical time in my life…

Seek and Destroy I, once, was a member of a security detail at a Metallica show. It was awesome. “We are scanning the scene in the city tonight We are looking for you to start up a fight There is an evil feeling in our brains But it is nothing new you know it drives us…

“If you are depressed you are living in the past” “If you are anxious you are living in the future” “If you are at peace you are living in the present” - Lao Tzu I’ve had this on my phone home screen for over a year now. It’s a faithful…

By the Numbers: My Midlife Crisis I’m 45. Midlife. Old Enough to Know Better and (Often) Too Young to Care. Half-Time. Q: So, what’s the score? A: 3, 18, 17, 13, 8, 5, 7, 20, 1,000,000 to 1. “3" is the number of daughters that I am fortunate to have…

Learning from a Learner — I no longer have a job… I am unattached, unaffiliated and untethered. And, it’s my daughter’s fault. She’s a Runner, you see. She’s been called Filly and she’s been called Race Horse. She loves to run. And I love to watch her run. She’s run in La Paz, Jakarta, Kuala…

Overcoming the Gravity of “School” as a Parent & Educator in the 21st Century — "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex... It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." I'm going to use this Albert Einstein quote to make a point about Raising Adolescence: There are a lot of things that we can…

Dear Education, I want a divorce. I still love you but it's not a fulfilled love. It's superficial and based on me compromising who I am in order to support you. It's dysfunctional and codependent and has kept me bound and gagged and feeling crazy for a really long time. …