Live With Flair

Today felt surreal but profoundly joyful. Penn State lifted their masking requirement in classrooms. For the first time in 2 years, I taught without a

I’m learning about prosocial and positive risk. Consider the risk it requires to start a conversation with a potential new friend, to join a new

Today I asked my students how they are taking care of themselves. Never before have I seen so many exhausted, overwhelmed, and anxious students. How

My anxiety-ridden cat recently advanced to a peculiar routine. If I sit precisely in a certain spot on the couch, with the fuzzy brown blanket,

Yesterday I read John 4 and the account of Jesus talking to the Samaritan woman. I stay for a minute with these words about the

Today I thought about how the smallest and most common birds often make the most beautiful songs. Think of the wood thrush or the nightingale

It reads, “Any given moment can change your life. You just have to be there.” It reminds me to stay attentive, to look for possibilities,

Today in class, we tried a 15 minute supportive listening exercise. In random groups of 3-4 people, students told their group members what felt discouraging,

I recently read a quote from Oswald Chambers: “You must yield yourself in utter humiliation to the only one who can break the dominating power

I often return to 2 Chronicles 20:12 and this simple declaration to God: “We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”