When anger strikes, the last thing any of us want to hear is “calm down”. Sometimes, when anger is pulsating through every nerve of my body, I just need to get it out, like a scream that comes from depths of my soul. When my kids were little, they needed that too. I learned that when they were really angry or upset, especially when they felt like when they had a situation at school that was frustrating or when they felt something was unjust, it was important to take a walk in the woods and...

Every winter, my daughter and I do some kind of creative activity. This year, we decided to partake in jewelry art. A long (very long) time ago, I made a jewelry tree – costume jewelry from my grandmother, my mother, and me glued to a felt background and framed by a lovely, discarded wood frame. It hangs each holiday season during the month of December. Paris often remarked how much she liked the jewelry tree, and how much she would like one for herself, to hang for future holidays. So, after...

In one of my advanced leadership courses, I ask students to create a photovoice: several written paragraphs describing a concept or idea, along with a single image relating to the words on the page. Students begin thinking about the project, and taking pictures, about a month before it’s due. I ask them to look at situations from a leadership perspective and focus on images which might help tell that story. The concept of photovoice is based on the idea that images along with words can...