This was not what I planned to write my first blog about but, as a former teacher, I am taking this as a teachable moment.  This Saturday, our country saw hatred insert its evil into a peaceful Shabbat morning where members of the Jewish Community of the The Tree of Life had gathered to worship and celebrate a life event of a new baby.  Hatred is nothing new to the 21st Century let alone the United States.  Hatred has been in existence for centuries and it is fed by the ignorance of those who believe it the ignorance of what they are taught and exposed to.  Sometimes this ignorance is…

Welcome to The Art of Life my new blog about, well, life.  This blog was inspired by a conversation I had about some of my life experiences and how I could write a book.  My hope is that in writing these posts is that you, the readers, can draw something useful to apply to your own life experiences. Life has its ups and downs but it is how we handle those experiences that defines who we are.  Sometimes these experiences are too hard to handle and we look for ways to cope and handle them instead of letting them destroy us.  Each experience has value and it is what we…

This was not what I planned to write my first blog about but, as a former teacher, I am taking this as a teachable moment.  This Saturday, our country saw hatred insert its evil into a peaceful Shabbat morning where members of the Jewish Community of the The Tree of Life had gathered to worship and celebrate a life event of a new baby.  Hatred is nothing new to the 21st Century let alone the United States.  Hatred has been in existence for centuries and it is fed by the ignorance of those who believe it the ignorance of what they are taught and exposed to.  Sometimes this ignorance is…

Welcome to The Art of Life my new blog about, well, life.  This blog was inspired by a conversation I had about some of my life experiences and how I could write a book.  My hope is that in writing these posts is that you, the readers, can draw something useful to apply to your own life experiences. Life has its ups and downs but it is how we handle those experiences that defines who we are.  Sometimes these experiences are too hard to handle and we look for ways to cope and handle them instead of letting them destroy us.  Each experience has value and it is what we…