Make Exam Prep or Any Project Less Stressful
10 December 2019
Allison read Professor Karen Inkelas' advice for University of Virginia students and realized her insights apply to any daunting project as well as exams.
What We're Reading Now
Read. Please.
1 December 2019
Rachel savored A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader, edited by Maria Popova and Claudia Bedrick, and considered what she might write in her own love letter to books.
Choosing Gratitude
26 November 2019
Janie listened to Episode 7: How Gratitude Can Change Your Life, of the Big Life Kids podcast with her sons, Charlie and William, and enjoyed learning together about how gratitude can help you feel happier and more appreciative of what you have.
Emotions Are Contagious
12 November 2019
Barbara read Make Yourself Immune to Secondhand Stress by Shawn Achor and Michelle Geilan that confirmed via scientific research something she had always suspected: stress is contagious.
Silent Words
1 November 2019
Rachel returned to The Story of Bip, written and illustrated by Marcel Marceau, and found herself as delighted by the words of the famous mime as she was when she first read them as a girl. It's truly a wonder how much we can say, even when there are no words.
