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The “Knowing”: Leaving My Teaching Job After 12 Years as a Young Mom

Every January, I write down words I hope will shape the year ahead. One year, I wrote: take risks on faith. I didn’t know that would mean leaving a job of 13 years, starting over as a new teacher again, and trusting a feeling I couldn’t fully explain — only feel. Some posts on Spruceprints…
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The Day I Threw Away 20 Years of Planners

Calendars and planbooks hold the blueprints of our lives and the footprints of our attention. They hold accomplishments and tasks forgotten. It’s like they hold a life of their own and to toss them means tossing out the documentation of memories and accomplishments. For about 20 years, I had kept my old planners. From Lily…
