Compliments are tricky things, both to give and to receive. Sometimes we put down ourselves as we lift up someone else -- if only I c...

Some of you who read this blog have never met me outside the pages of the Internet, but many of you know me out in the real world in one w...

Throughout my life, my mom has always told me that I'm pretty. That's a great thing for a girl's ego -- except that often my mot...

Powerful teaching and learning. That's what I want my children to experience at school. That's what I want all children and te...

"I am five." That's Pippi's new greeting -- she doesn't say hello anymore, just thrusts out her hand with fingers sp...

Somehow Pippipalooza 2013 came and went already, without a peep here at the blog. My baby girl turned five -- or as she says, "a WHOL...

Each week, I drive Pippi and her friend Miss A to their afternoon dance class and then take Miss A home again. Eavesdropping from the fron...