The Journey Blog

6-12-23 Survivor’s Guilt

  I have beaten the odds.   The average life expectancy for someone living with ALS is 2 – 5 years. I am coming up on the seven-year anniversary of...

May Mayhem

We have entered the home stretch of the school year. It is a month full of celebrations, culminations, teetering piles of obligations, and a pace of living that can encourage...

Spring!

Living with ALS is always an adventure. When the weather gets chilly, which it does in New England, that adventure moves inside for me. I have never really appreciated the...

Studies, Play, Character

The mission of Greenwich Country Day School is to enable all children in our care to discover and to develop what is finest in themselves—to achieve the highest standards in...

Known and Loved

ony Jarvis, the former Head of School at Roxbury Latin School in Boston, would open every school year by promising families that their children would be, “known and loved.” These...

Exclamation Points

I have found myself using exclamation points recently. As a general rule, a lot of exclamation points is a bad literary choice, but I think I had a subliminal reason....