I was looking through some of my photos this morning and came across this little gem: Swim Every Ocean. Simple yet profound. And what an awesome bucket list idea! I mean, there are only five oceans in the world, so it's totally doable, right? This started me on a walk down memory lane via my …
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Open Your Mind, Get Up Off the Couch, Move
I was recently reading an article that featured a day in the life of Anthony Bourdain. Though I was fairly well-acquainted with him, his persona and his popular influence in the world of travel and food, I gained more insight into his philosophy on life, food, travel as well as more about him on a personal …
Change is coming…
Just a quick hello from me! It's been a while but just wanted to let you know that I'm working on making some welcomed changes to this site, which are currently in progress now and will continue over the next few weeks. As always, thanks for taking time to visit. While you're here, feel free …
Surprising Benefits of a Working Vacation
Three things I learned from my latest working vacation. Good things!
Questions I Ask Myself Every Time I Travel to the Beach with Kids
Apparently I'm a slow learner. Do you ask yourself these same questions when you're at the beach with kids?
Travel Wins and Epic Fails
You win some, you lose some. Here are my recent wins and losses during a family road trip.
11 Ways Finland’s Education System Shows Us that “Less is More”.
Great read!
When I left my 7th grade math classroom for my Fulbright research assignment in Finland I thought I would come back from this experience with more inspiring, engaging, innovative lessons. I expected to have great new ideas on how to teach my mathematics curriculum and I would revamp my lessons so that I could include more curriculum, more math and get students to think more, talk more and do more math.
This drive to do more and More and MORE is a state of existence for most teachers in the US….it is engrained in us from day one. There is a constant pressure to push our students to the next level to have them do bigger and better things. The lessons have to be more exciting, more engaging and cover more content. This phenomena is driven by data, or parents, or administrators or simply by our work-centric society where we…
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Our Antigua Adventure: Day 1
Well, I'm finally getting around to writing about my trip to Antigua in the West Indies. I've only been here for what, five days now? How can that even be possible? I don't know. Starting the trip off on only two hours of sleep was not ideal! But hey, you do what you've got to …
Traveling light, in theory
This is my goal for an upcoming two-week trip to the Caribbean (yay, yay, yay!) in December. Actually, packing and traveling light has been my goal for every trip I've ever taken thus far in my 42 years of life. Sadly, I've yet to once succeed in this seemingly simple endeavor. Now factor in additional …
Travel Quote of the Day
Writing and travel broaden your @$$ if not your mind and I like to write standing up. —Ernest Hemingway
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