When my little cousin went to preschool for the first time, she had a wonderful experience.

Nevertheless, as she was leaving at the end of the day, she said loudly to her mother, “I didn’t learn anything.”

Hopefully, that made her teachers (and the school director) laugh. Regardless of what the child’s expectations were, she definitely learned something.

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Back when I first started teaching music lessons in Atlanta, I was a little self-conscious about my circumstances.

I lived in a small, run-down apartment with no central air conditioning and a bad parking situation. Piano lessons, I taught in the bedroom, and guitar lessons were in the living room.

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A great deal of information is available to help you get started with a project or activity.

There’s a lot less information to tell you when to stop.

What happens when you’re no longer trying to overcome inertia to get started? What happens when you’ve got a different kind of inertia — that of the object in motion staying in motion?

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The thing that surprised me most when I went back to my old life for five months was how much I hated the commute.

After spending most of the pandemic in Maine, I went to Atlanta for a semester to close down The Little Middle School this past spring. Having spent years living in Atlanta, I knew what I was in for, but I was not prepared for the stress and dread I felt each day when it was time to hit the road each morning. Had I experienced this over the previous twenty years and just not noticed?

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As a blogger, I try to not blog too much about blogging. It has that weirdly recursive quality to it, like the woman on the old Land O’Lakes butter package holding the a package of butter with a picture of her holding a package of butter with a picture of her holding a package of butter...

Or the websites that teach you how to make money by creating a website that teaches people how to make money by creating a website that teaches people how to make money...

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