Tag: community building

• Teaching Empathy during COVID

  Empathy is a trait that serves us all, especially during a public health crisis. All around the country, school boards are struggling with decisions on how to best educate our children through a public health crisis. Our family, my husband and I and our two kids, attended a recent school board meeting where it would…

  Teri

  October 9, 2020

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  community building, COVID-19, empathy, masks, public health and saftey, Teaching

• We belong to each other

  I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
 And what I assume you shall assume,
 For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. — Walt Whitman ***** I took a class on the personal essay and memoir at a weeklong writing conference this summer.  What attracts me to these conferences is not just the focus…

  Teri

  July 13, 2017

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  common human experiences, community building, Song of Myself, Walt Whitman, writing workshop