Seeing So Many Adults Cry

My daughter often participates in conferences with me – most recently, she was a fully registered participant at the Wel

Can a Flight Cancelation Be a Gift?

I start this blogpost the morning after arriving here in Sweden where I’m expected to give a workshop and a keynote soon

On Finding a Way, Rocking Horses, Blueberry Muffins and… Learning?

The horse I don’t know why, but this memory keeps surfacing for me these days. When I was maybe three or four years old,

On Being Brave Enough to Be Bad while Learning Crochet

Everyone needs to hear this:"Be brave enough to be bad at something new." @JonAcuff https://t.co/M93kYS8hqQI try to

Applying “Interoceptive” Learning and Journaling in Class (reflections from The Extended Mind)

So continuing on from what I’ve been writing about the The Extended Mind book by Annie Murphy Paul, the first chapter is

Sorrow Prepares You For Joy: A Story of Motherhood

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It

may i be wrong… and Thank you for pain

Two things are staying with me this week, one from a poem, and one from a clip of a child singing. The first one, “may i

How Ms. Marvel Led Us to Feminist Quranic Interpretation

So I remember the moment I discovered there was a Muslim female superhero – Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan. I remember ordering

All My Children?

Today, lots of interesting things happened. I was telling my daughter that we’re going to pass by the bakery on our way

Help Others Find Their Purpose in Life with Ikigai

I heard about Ikigai a few months ago at a keynote. It is a Japanese approach which helps people connect their passions and st