Notes from Deb

Grade 2, Everything New

Even if a part of your grown-up brain thinks they should know better, well, they clearly don't know better yet.

It's worth remembering, as we launch into a new school year, that education isn't actually about grades.

We hadn't brought our bikes, but it's hard to know what we would have done if we had.

I took cello lessons from age 8 to age 14; during those six years, I graduated from "truly bad" to "moderately acceptable."

A comfort zone is really a velvet trap that protects us from both risk and reward.

The room went silent, and a bunch of 18-year-olds suddenly grew up.

"There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden."

The hottest trend in North America this summer is a cool shade of purple.

On Tuesday, one of you put us over the 500,000 milestone of newsletter subscribers.