Keeping Up the Pace

     "This is why adults should not be learning TikTok dances."       I pretended not to hear my son's words as I forged a p...

     When I was sixteen years old, a boy I liked asked me to go for a walk around the neighborhood one evening. I told him, "No," ...

     You might find this hard to believe, but the very first warning label on a product did not surface until 1938 when Congress passed a la...

   For a long time, I sought perfection in everything I did even though I realize I am far from that ideal. Anyone who enters my house can s...

     "You don't have to wear the cape all by yourself."      I was listening to a spoken word poem entitled "If I Sho...

    This summer, when I looked through the rearview mirror of my car as we headed to the Outer Banks, I couldn't help but smile at the l...

 I wrote this blog three years ago, when my first group of IB TOK seniors headed off to college. I have continued to share it each year beca...