Spring Break, Recovery and Return

I’m a big fan of rest and recovery, mostly because I work best in intense bursts of energy and creativity. Today we return to classes after Spring Break, an entire week of respite from a quarter year’s worth of effort. Spring Break is right where it...

Connect the D.O.T.S.

When I was a kid, I used to love passing the time with books of connect the dots images/ I would take my pencil, start at #1 and draw a line to #2, #3 and so on, in numerical order, until I run out of numbers, revealing a picture of a smiling dinosaur. If I was so...

What Luck?

I read an article about the phrase, “you’re welcome,” the latest word that means the opposite of its original usage, in the vein of bad-means-good and sick-means-great. You’re welcome is/was used as a courtesy response to and an acknowledgement of a thank you. Now,...

Un-Pause It!

      I spend a good deal of time taxiing my kids around Boulder County, as I’m sure you can relate to. To keep the backseat squabbles in check, I decided to play the girls an audiobook on the way to school. Audible.com gave me a free gift of Anne...

Art Appreciation

Art Appreciation was the class in school that everyone took for that “easy A” to pump up their GPA. How hard it is to appreciate art, right? It couldn’t be harder than a chemistry class. What a terrible mistake to dismiss great art like that. My good...

Tougher than whale dung

My In-Laws visited over the Labor Day weekend, and I had plenty of items on my Honey-Do List for Grandpa Ray to help me complete. While Grandma Leanne was in the kitchen whipping up delectable meals for the holiday, Ray and I headed out to the backyard to clear out a...

3 Simple Fixes for Black Belt Performance

Most of our martial-arts-parents are not Black Belts (unlike Ms. Michelle), and, as such, many parents believe they cannot help their child improve her martial arts performance. It’s true, it takes a Black Belt to make Black Belts, but it doesn’t take a...

#icebucketchallenge

I took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Click on the link and view the clip to see who I challenged (it’s probably you). ALS Ice Bucket Challenge And, yes, the water was ice cold.  Only amateurs hit themselves on the head with ice cubes.