Exploring the Third Season of Life
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I’m a veteran teacher, flutist, naturalist, and writer.
Join me on this third-season-of-life journey of faith.
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Carole
Recent Posts
Link-ups delayed—postponed, waiting, tested, slowed—no longer
Last Friday, we Five-Minute Friday participants received a note from founder Kate Motaung saying that due to tech issues, the link-up would be delayed. She wrote, “I'll send another email when it's live (but it might be a day or two or three) 🙂 Sorry to...
A story about polite asking, complaints, and answering
I discovered this week that it’s extra important to be polite when I really, really want something to happen and it’s not happening as planned. In other words, polite when I’m being tested: my will or God’s? For the past few years, I’ve been dealing with...
Paideia: to nurture discipline, education, and instruction
Back in the day when I was called to nurture adolescent girls in my classrooms at Ursuline Academy of Dallas, I used the Paideia approach: didactic instruction, coaching, and Socratic seminars. Popularized by Mortimer Adler in the 1980s, Paideia nurturing of the...




