Living is learning. Every day we are learning new things and re-learning old things. Sometimes we are very aware of what we are learning and other times it can seep into our sub conscious and dwell there unbeknownst until called upon. There are times we set forth to learn something or do something we have never done and other times we are minding our business and happenstance happens to teach us something. Learning comes in all shapes and sizes. Let’s say you have a general

I work at a school where students spend a good portion of the day interacting with their phones. Information of one kind of another is flying all over the place. What's the latest? Who's making news? What's going on? While teenagers may be a little quicker typing on their phones than the rest of us, in every workplace and within every family information is being traded and it becomes its own form of commerce. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary commerce is defined as

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Many things have quite a distance between the start and the finish while others not so much. I was taught that with every beginning there is an ending and with every ending something new begins. If you look at life through a beginning/ending lens you could say we begin and end things all day long. We wake up at the beginning of our day and the ending of our night. We make our way through our grogginess and start to engage the day as

The other day I was talking with a high school student and he was going on about some of the less- than-stellar things some of his peers were doing. As he walked out my door, he looked over his shoulder and said, “High school is a breeding ground for stupid.” That phrase gave me a chuckle. It also prompted my writing this post. High school is indeed a breeding ground for stupid as well as social angst, peer pressure, experimentation and discovery. There is considerable resear