I started to write this blog with this thought: We all have luxuries. Some people have fancy yachts and other people take a bubble bath. But then I thought is a bubble bath really a luxury? What exactly is a luxury? I looked up the definition in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and what I read did not exactly fit in with my definition. Their definition goes like this: - a condition or situation of great comfort, ease, and wealth - something that is expensive and not necess

I have a cold. Or at least I think I do. Maybe I have the flu. I have never been sure where one leaves off and the other begins. All I know is I feel horrible. I wrote this blog in my head while I was lying in bed trying to sleep and not getting anywhere. It seemed to flow pretty well in my mind, but sitting here trying to transcribe it I just want to get back in bed. I have close to zero motivation to do anything other than wake up and feel better. My colds used to run a fam

This is the only blog you will ever have to read. It has everything you need to live a better life. If you never read another self-help book or article it will not matter. This is it. End of story. I work in a school where hyperbole rules the day. Everything is awesome. Or the worst thing ever. The vast middle ground has been abandoned. It is a black and white world. I tend to not get swept up in teenage behavior. It is hard enough for them to negotiate those years without th

Some people rarely get bored and others do way more often. I suppose we all have our own definition of what it means to be bored, but I would imagine the common denominator is things are dull and uninteresting. We don’t feel engaged or interested. Sometimes we feel trapped. We can be with someone or doing something that we don’t really think we can get out of and we need to endure it till we are freed. Sometimes this is a trap of our own making and sustaining, other times we