These are revelatory and anxiety-producing times. I can remember being in elementary and middle school and periodically taking those “True and False” and “Fact or Opinion” quizzes and wondering why READ MORE
This middle adulthood moment that I’m having has got me extra full of reflections in 2024, and somehow they do not possess the “crisis” quality that many of our cultural READ MORE
Shortly after the pandemic began, I found myself taking longer walks than ever through New York City. On these walks, I craved rich storytelling that could transport me far from READ MORE
Today I taught my 3rd graders without a mask for the first time since March 2019. It was a revelation. After a tumultuous two years of changing COVID restrictions, the READ MORE
My Health Educator Team Got Me Through What does it really mean to be a team? To wear matching sun hats, jerseys, jeans, and Birkenstocks coincidentally like the two on READ MORE
Happy New Year, and welcome to my new blog and website! As much as I hope to kiss 2020 goodbye for good, I will hold fast to the important lessons READ MORE
For months now, I have had memories surface from a time gone by. A time during which my life in a privileged/lucky bubble of naïveté was made plain, and a READ MORE
How much can really happen in one year of our lives? They say that when our ancestors were cave people, the amount that a human being cognitively processed in their READ MORE
Don’t Be Fooled: Here’s the Truth About Yoga You might look at the above photo and think you’re seeing “yoga.” You’re not. Yoga is actually a concept meaning “union.” It READ MORE
Since COVID-19 quarantine began, I have taken a long walk everyday. I walk from my apartment in Harlem along the Hudson River for a minimum 4.4 mile loop. I walk READ MORE