Live With Flair

I have a new favorite verb: nurture. It derives from the Latin words meaning to cherish and feed.  Last night, I see my great friend

I say good-bye to another class of freshmen today. I’m always overwhelmed with the thought that never again will we all be together like this,

I’ve been thinking about confidence lately. A student hands me a paper and says, “You are going to love this. This is an A paper.” 

I read in Matthew 7:7-11 something so beautiful to remember: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and

In Proverbs 24: 3-4, we read that “through wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled

I go out for a walk alone, and I notice the bright winter sun. It’s so strange how I strain for that sunshine on my

Today, we start making Christmas cookies. I’ve written in years past all about the explosion of sprinkles and various motherhood lessons along the way. I’ve

With all those student stories thick in my mind, I leave my house for a doctor’s appointment. I want to interact with nobody. It’s that

They arrive with their stories–at least the beginnings of them. They can write anything at all for this memoir assignment, any single event from their

It’s that time of the semester when students come to me in tears about their grades. They realize it’s too late; no amount of begging