This term I am teaching in the basement of a campus building where I rarely have classes . On Monday, I leisurely walked to my classroom, congratulating myself on being more than a few minutes early. It was a good thing, too, because someone had re-arranged the tables so that I didn’t have one at …
If we can distance ourselves from our regret a bit and look at it squarely, questioning it for what it can teach us, regret can help us to live in such a way today so as to minimize feelings of regret tomorrow.
Today I am writing about the practice of waiting over at Psychology Today.
What do you care about so much that you happily go out of your comfort zone to support? I spend a good chunk of my free time (what is free time, anyway? a topic for another post) volunteering for an international non-profit organization that helps parents, teachers, and others understand the social and emotional needs …
It is a Sunday mid-morning in early December, the high temperature for the day already having come and gone, and I am taking my daily walk (once again daily, after weeks of neglect), accompanied only by the voice of author Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reading Thomas Beller’s short story “A Different Kind of Imperfection,” from the most …