inner strength – The Baltimore Writer

August 7, 2015

14 Hours In Light: Part 4. The Rising Sun, The Falling Moon, and The Epiphany

Part 4. The Rising Sun, The Falling Moon, and The Epiphany These seven minutes I spend on the summit of Big Bald Mountain, waiting for the sun’s first sliver to slip over the eastern mountains beyond Little Bald are, perhaps, the most powerful of my life. Within the first minute of standing between the falling…

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November 30, 2013

An Open Letter To God: Are You There?

Dear God: Are You there? Lately I have been wondering, as a few things have happened around our world that makes me question what’s really going on. Well, I guess it is a combination of things. I mean, bad stuff happens all the time. No real change there. The change is in us, and the…

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August 9, 2013

Mindfulness in Schools: Empowering Students For Success

As we get ready to head back to school for the new academic year, I am aware of a movement that is sweeping across the country to make students and educators more mindful of their learning and their teaching. It is flying right in the face of high-stakes testing and assessment, but is it really…

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June 27, 2013

Follow Your Passion

Shift Your Energy, And Everything Changes. We all carry within us an enormous, limitless supply of energy and creativity. It has to come out of us in some form, and we make the decision time and time again how we expend it. Some of us make these decisions consciously; others have thrown themselves at the…

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March 17, 2013

Writing Strengthens the Soul: For the Present and the Future

I say it all the time: Your Story Matters, and for so many reasons. Most of the time, the “Your Story Matters” phrase is something I tell people who want to write their story but are afraid to start. They might be afraid of judgment (more on this later about what assessment-driven writing is doing…

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