Author: Rus VanWestervelt

Model Teaching: Empowerment Through Multi-Faceted Instruction

I’ve been teaching for a long time — long enough to see the spin of the pedagogical cycle of strategies… Read more.
Why We Fear Creativity, And How To Let Go

I have been in this cafe for a little over an hour, writing in my Daybook to the ambient sounds… Read more.
On Authenticity and Taking Things Personally

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these… Read more.
Journaling: Your Greatest Investment

One of the questions I am asked most frequently about the process of writing is which is most important: the… Read more.
Chasing Fire: Understanding the Death of Baltimore’s Mayor in 1904

In 2003, I completed my 306-page thesis on the Baltimore Fire of 1904. In my research, I stumbled on a… Read more.
Challenger: 73 Seconds Define 30 Years

Dateline – Tuesday, 28 January 1986. 11:35 a.m. I’m upstairs in my bedroom, cramming the last of my new textbooks… Read more.
My Friend Is Depressed: What Can I Do?

One of the most common questions we are asked at Lines of Love is, “My friend is depressed and I… Read more.
The Child At My Door

It was a late November night, And I was just about done. The stacks of papers that I needed to… Read more.
Compassion: Let Us All Begin Here

The dust is beginning to settle following the attacks in Paris, as moments of shock have turned to hours and… Read more.
Dream On

When I was 7 or 8, my brother, 19 years my elder, moved back into our house after he separated… Read more.