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 my diagnosis. I have lived an engaged and engaging life. I am a hopeful person living with a disease that is acutely soul crushing. My...

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 a few bad choices.   There is no better season in New England to slow down, take a look around and smell the flowers. Unfortunately,...

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 cold. I appreciate it less with ALS. My body just doesn’t work when it is cold these days. This makes the arrival of spring a...

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 their studies, in their play, and in their character. These words keep showing up. Study, Play, and Character were foundational long before GCDS began our...

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 are powerful words: compelling for parents, exciting for teachers, and empowering for students. We are not the only school to have re-extended Jarvis’ promise, but...

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. I was trying to kick-start my energy, my hope. I am an obnoxiously positive person. I pride myself on it, but the past six months...