Teaching Wilderness
[This is a guest blog post by Adam Salinger] After nearly 30 years of teaching at every grade level from K-12, I’ve often been asked how I managed to integrate my love of long-distance backpacking into all of my teaching…
[This is a guest blog post by Adam Salinger] After nearly 30 years of teaching at every grade level from K-12, I’ve often been asked how I managed to integrate my love of long-distance backpacking into all of my teaching…
One of the passages from my book take less. do more. that seems to be resonating with a lot of people is contained towards the end of Lesson 14. It’s about the story you tell yourself. Every life is filled with good and bad,…
I don’t read as much as I would like to these days. When I was building businesses, increasing skills to become a better leader, better husband, better engineer, better employee, better manager, better producer, better speaker, better writer… I was constantly…
I’m a big fan of use the Notes app on my phone, to capture things before I forget them, since I almost always have my phone nearby. I referenced this in previous post on Family Lexicon and in fact I use…
A couple of years ago, towards the end of January, with the Christmas lights and decorations long packed away into boxes in the basement, we notice that baby Jesus was still on our mantle. We were about to bundle him…
Part of the great adventure of writing my first book is the things I’ve learned and the people I’ve met. At least for me, it seems like usually when I admit that I don’t know something (which is quite often),…
I was walking along the Alpe Adria Trail in 2022, strolling with a friend on the trip through a forested section in Slovenia, and in the course of our conversation, I mentioned ‘family lexicon’. She asked me what I meant by…
I could tell Luke, our then-four-year-old neighbor, was trying to work out something by the intent, scrunched-up look on his face. He and his sister, nine-year-old Delilah, loved to come to our new house in Bend because it had three…
One of the phrases I grew weary of hearing during the early days of the pandemic was “Out of an abundance of caution…”. I understand that when exercising judgement, it’s appropriate to consider all the information available, the source and…
A friend (two different friends, actually) forwarded an article from the September issue of the Atlantic titled “How America got Mean.” The author, David Brooks says he’s been obsessed with two questions for the last 8 years: Why have Americans become so…
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