August 2018

It’s Week Nine and the perfect time to begin practicing mindfulness regularly.  Students are arriving in their classrooms momentarily and while there’s probably plenty of excitement associated with a new year there may also be some apprehension and stress afoot. What exactly does the term “mindfulness” mean?  Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD from Western Massachusetts who has […]

It’s week eight of the Sizzlin Summer Challenge and we are off to the farm – a trip, that as Vermonters, we are likely to take for granted given our state’s landscape.  That said, I grew up in the city of Pittsburgh where farms were far from nearby.  Thankfully, my parents insisted on piling us […]

“Climbed a mountain and I turned around And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills”  – Stevie Nicks I know, I know it’s still summer. I’m not trying to speed time. It’s just a sweet reminder of the power of walking through the woods to achieve great heights, then turning to reflect. What […]

This week is the time for decluttering and donating to charity.  In an effort to get ahead of the game, I convinced my spouse that we needed less clutter in our bedroom. Thus we decided to jettison one dresser and full confession – it was his dresser we eliminated. Within minutes he rifled through five […]