When I began thinking about starting a blog, this was what I had planned to make my first blog post.  You see, several years ago I decided to start writing a book about, well you guessed it, life experiences and how they are valuable life lessons. My plan was to take a different event in my life as a chapter and explain the event, how I handled it and the lessons I took away from it as a guide to how to handle life.  I thought that by sharing my stories that this might help others going through the same things to feel like they were not alone and if…

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…

When I began thinking about starting a blog, this was what I had planned to make my first blog post.  You see, several years ago I decided to start writing a book about, well you guessed it, life experiences and how they are valuable life lessons. My plan was to take a different event in my life as a chapter and explain the event, how I handled it and the lessons I took away from it as a guide to how to handle life.  I thought that by sharing my stories that this might help others going through the same things to feel like they were not alone and if…

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…

When I began thinking about starting a blog, this was what I had planned to make my first blog post.  You see, several years ago I decided to start writing a book about, well you guessed it, life experiences and how they are valuable life lessons. My plan was to take a different event in my life as a chapter and explain the event, how I handled it and the lessons I took away from it as a guide to how to handle life.  I thought that by sharing my stories that this might help others going through the same things to feel like they were not alone and if…

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…