Many children learn to say "please" and "thank you" at an early age, but truly instilling a sense of appreciation in a child goes beyond teaching words. Dr. Andrea Hussong, clinical psychologist and ...

Being told that you have cancer is the most surreal experience of a lifetime. Time stops, voices become incomprehensible and the feeling in your gut is like being dropped from a 50-story building.

In the face of all the hardships of the world, remembering the things we are grateful for can be reassuring. But constantly being grateful can also lead us to blatantly ignore all our problems. I ...

Sisyphus pushes the rock up a hill only to repeatedly have it roll back down, and for eternity, he is cursed to push it back up again. Sometimes as educators, this is what the school system feels like ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - With Thanksgiving coming in a few weeks, the month of November invites us into a season of gratitude. Author and blogger Caitlyn Scaggs says it’s important to harness the power ...

Over the last months, my husband and I have been quarreling a lot (see Self-Erasure and its Discontents). The pandemic changed all that. The lines we drew in the sand have all blown away. My demands ...

Last month, students in the SRE Certificate program at Leeds spent a morning preparing meals for our unhoused neighbors and delivering them, along with other essentials, to people living along Boulder ...

On this Thanksgiving weekend, some of us are feeling a postelection, glass-half-full mentality. Others are exhausted from the travel and turkey dinner prep. The 31/2 week turnaround to Christmas feels ...

She loves delving into the mundanities of pedestrian life and unveil the underlying magic that they hold, in her writings. She has dabbled effortlessly between children in her creative writing classes ...