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Category: teaching

  • John 1: Our Light in the Darkness 

    “In the beginning was the Word” starts the book of John, the fourth and final gospel account. John says that the Word was with God and was God and was life that became the light. He introduces John, Jesus’s baptizing cousin, not to be confused with John the disciple and author of this book, as…

  • Old Year, New Me

    This year has a few leftover days, so I am going to use them to catch up on all the reflecting I’ve been putting off. To be honest this year was a mixed bag. We got hit a couple of financial and social setbacks in the spring. Both relationships and circumstances left us feeling in…

  • Don’t Mind the Cursive

    I keep seeing posts from folks bemoaning the loss of cursive and  complaining about what books the kids these days are or aren’t reading. I guess that Facebook has become a place to vent frustrations about the educations Gen Z and Alpha. So here’s mine: please stop. Seriously, as a parent of two school children,…

  • Infinite Potential

    Last week, I helped an eighth grader do his math homework. Algebra is not my strength, but we figured it out together. It was about slopes on a graph. There were ten problems and when we finished the seventh, he said he could submit the assignment for a passing grade. I asked him if he…

  • Fifteen Minutes

    Let me tell you about the time I was a little bit famous. When I graduated with my shiny journalism degree in the late nineties, the world was in the middle of a massive transition from paper to electronic mass communication. For local papers, it meant people no longer paid for news that they could…

  • Cubits & Curiosity

    I was thinking about my Dad recently and his impact in the world. While he never built anything large, nor entertained a wide audience, after his death, for years, I would run into people whose lives he had crossed and created a meaningful connection. One of his talents was listening, not necessarily for relational purpose,…

  • Short Cuts

    The weather recently couldn’t be more lovely, but I think my map app as been plotting against me. First, it was Ivy’s dance class last week. Her final performance was scheduled in another town 30-40 minutes away. With swim class ending at 10 a.m. and a full dress rehearsal starting at noon, I opted for…

  • Only Together

    In leadership, telling people what to do can move the immediate process along, but if not done well, can undermine your long term goal of having people do things on their own. This is the same for parenting, teaching and leadership within a business or organization. The purpose of meetings and conversations should not be…

  • The House of Omicron

    Just because we are “done” with this pandemic doesn’t mean it’s done with us.

  • Push Back

    No one tells you how to break the glass ceiling.