HeyJared70 Thoughts on Turning 70
A recent septuagenarian reflects on the meaning of turning 70 in these contentious times with an emphasis on creativity, wholeness and personal healing.
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Remembering Teaching on 9-11 (opens the original)
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Twenty-five years ago this morning, I drove along West River Drive toward Masterman High School. The sky was blue, the air was crisp, and the Philadelphia skyline looked especially beautiful. By the end of my first class, the world had changed.This morning, at seventy-three, I find myself sitting inside those memories again—not remembering them from a distance, but inhabiting them. I can still see the worried face of the colleague who first told me that a plane had struck one of the Twin Towers.
Teshuvah — [Re]turning to Ourselves (opens the original)
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Grief and heartbreak have their own liturgy. They ask the same question over and over in their own blunt way: Who are you now, without this?In the Jewish calendar, it is the year 5787. This is a fact, but I no longer remember—if I ever knew—when the counting started or the significance of year one, though I know the months have something to do with the moon.Soon it will be the Ten Days of Awe, the holiest days in the Jewish calendar, marking the time between Rosh Hashanah—the New Year—and Yom Ki
First Do No Harm: A Teacher Reflects on the Teaching Life (opens the original)
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First in a series of back to school essays that I will be sharing about the teaching life which I have written over the thirty five years I spent as a public school teacher and teacher educator. First Do No Harm<img alt="" class="
Re-membering my mother, Shirley (opens the original)
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When Lightning Strikes (opens the original)
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