Once Upon a Time by Hannah Jayne Once upon a time I was a 14-year-old girl in a training bra and a spiral perm, screaming my guts out at a one-inch-tall singer in rhinestones and a backward baseball cap. He was a New Kid on the Block, and I was one of 63,000 girls […]
When I was a young reading teacher, I struggled to understand why my student Buddy hated to read. A walking cloud of dust, Buddy usually wore a dirt-colored tee shirt smeared with grease marks from the many oil changes he did after school daily in a local garage. Buddy was in school to collect a […]
Stories are my passion. Everyone around me knows this. I have long said that humans are story-making beings, but after reading the work of social psychologist Timothy Wilson, I think we are also meaning-making beings. Wilson explains that we develop stories to help us understand ourselves. To make our meaning. To help us find happiness. […]
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