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Your Stories Don’t Define You, How You Tell Them Will

Sep 25, 2018

It was a TED video that caught Don Wettrick's attention during his lunch hour. He is always looking for inspiration through reading and videos, and as a teacher, he is used to fitting that inspiration into little boxes necessary to keep administration happy. But this was different, partly because he had switched schools...


Sep 18, 2018

Ronan had been dating his (then) girlfriend for six months and hadn’t shared a huge story from his past. Not because he didn’t want to, or was keeping anything from her; he simply didn’t see the relevance.

Then she saw an image of him on a safety training video for the cruise line she was working for, and called...


Sep 10, 2018

Kevin Strauss wasn't born into a family that was outdoorsy. He didn't grow up in a place where it was common to hike for miles, or to go camping in the wilderness over the summer. But at some point in his life, he realized he wanted to reconnect with nature, to explore his adventurous nature and stretch out of his...


Sep 4, 2018

Many years ago, I read a post by Nilofer Merchant about what she calls In-Between Space:

Summers when you were young were the in-between spaces of learning – where you could languish in play time and know learning time was ahead... That time where you got a job offer but hadn’t started yet. Maybe even during the...