by jlouden | Sep 30, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
For the last two years, I have been trying to make sense of how, after a very hard period in my life, I got so deeply mired in regret and sadness that even falling in love with a man who makes my whole being light up just by walking around a corner wasn’t enough to...
by jlouden | Sep 23, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Once a year, I convene a course I co-created a number of years ago with Michele Lisenbury called TeachNow. What the course is really about is developing your craft as a teacher, about what happens when you ask yourself, “I want to be a better teacher; how do I...
by jlouden | Sep 9, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
This past weekend I went wild. I’ll admit, wild for me may appear tame to some, but hey, half a loaf of bread was consumed! Three bars of chocolate! Nine episodes of various Netflix TV episodes. Two naps! 200 pages of a stupid novel (I wish it hadn’t been stupid). Let...