Blast from the Past
- “He was treading water while you learned to scuba dive.” (N.B.) What a profound insight. We were talking about relationships and the dynamic that happens when one partner continues to grow while the other doesn’t. When you tread water, you only see what is on the surface. When you learn to scuba, you open yourself
- “The fifth-annual Speak Up survey polled more than 367,000 “education stakeholders”–parents, students, administrators, and teachers–and found that while 66 percent of administrators, 43 percent of parents, and 47 percent of teachers said they believed “local schools are doing a good job preparing students for jobs and careers of the future,” students disagreed. Among middle and
- Big step today. Everything fell into place and we took a drive north along the eastern Sierra’s to a little town called Independence, the seat of Inyo County, to do what some would consider giving up our independence (although one friend did say that it was exchanging it for interdependence, which I liked). Even before