“The key is not to prioritize your schedule but to schedule your priorities.”  Steven Covey What’s the one thing you can do this week that will make a difference?  This was the question posed at our team meaning one afternoon. A range of answers followed, have a ‘quiet time’, exercise, eat better…all good things to […]

I have been lucky enough to be a part of the Ambleside community for many years as the spouse of a teacher/board member. Cayce would often come home and share about the philosophy and the happenings in her classroom. In 2014, our involvement in the community changed as we became first-time parents and now this […]

Lately, Wednesdays have become Thai take out nights at our house. Our family is a month into this endeavor, and after sampling various dishes from numerous restaurants I got to thinking more deeply about these meals– how they not only feed our body, but feed our minds, as we share, anticipate, and talk over them. […]

​I teach Spiritual Formation to sophomores and juniors at the high school. Each Monday we begin that class by meditating through the “weekly examen.” I adapted it from a prayer practice called the “daily examen” (admittedly, it did not require a lot of innovation). The purpose of this practice is to deliberately pause in order […]

I cherish the memories of when we celebrated National Hispanic Heritage Month at my Elementary school in Texas. We lived in The Rio Grande Valley area which you could locate best if I point you to the southernmost tip of Texas. It must have been the proximity to Mexico that inspired the abundance of festivities […]