choosing out of flying solo

Share Photos don’t express how great the Next Step groups are! There is this phrase that we “work on ourselves” and “personal growth” types sometimes use: “choosing out.” As in, “I’m ‘choosing out’ on participating in that activity.” It’s a way of saying that beyond deciding not to participate, I’ve thought about my options and … Read more


life is my biggest teacher

Share The miracles at a Next Step workshop are always undeniable, big, huge. Love, love, love doing this work, even as much as it chokes me up and terrifies me to do it. The piece that I got this weekend, the piece that frankly I am just too exhausted to go into detail about in … Read more


flooded with gratitude

Share Last night, I was giving my students some last-minute study time before their first test of the semester. I had a nagging feeling that the stack of tests in front of me seemed a little too slim for the number of students that were in the class, so I quickly counted them. Oh, man–not … Read more


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