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Home About Curriculum Vitae Philosophy of Teaching 30 Days of Friends I have expressed a lot of admiration for people who are unapologetically themselves, the people who “do them” at their best as well as at their worst: those unique souls who just plain...
Day 6: CB, Empathetic & Industrious

Day 6: CB, Empathetic & Industrious

Home About Curriculum Vitae Philosophy of Teaching 30 Days of Friends I hesitate to call this person, whom I will call CB, a homemaker, but the more I think about it, the more impressive the word becomes. CB is the type of person that can pretty much make anything...
Day 3: Griselda, Enlightened & Enlightening

Day 3: Griselda, Enlightened & Enlightening

Home About Curriculum Vitae Philosophy of Teaching A Year of Friends Today I’d like to talk about a friend who is no longer alive. After moving to Colorado at 15, and generally hating my parents and my life because, teenager, this person made school into a place...
Day 2: AL, Joyful & Charismatic

Day 2: AL, Joyful & Charismatic

Day 2: AL, Joyful & Charismatic I had a dream about this person last night. We’ll call her AL I’ve probably known her since I was five, perhaps younger. And despite growing up and living very different lives, I feel as if she is one of the defining...
Day 1: JB, Thoughtful & Kind

Day 1: JB, Thoughtful & Kind

Day 1: JB, Thoughtful & Kind I’ve used these first initials because this friend has some markings of theĀ  Jeremy Bentham, the quirky philosopher whose “fundamental axiom” was “it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the...