Mattieu Ricard discusses Happiness.  What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment.
After training in biochemistry at the Institute Pasteur, Matthieu Ricard left science behind to move to the [...]

Mihaly Chsikszentmihaly discusses Flow.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. A leading researcher in positive psychology, he has devoted his life to studying what makes people truly happy: “When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.” He [...]

An interesting discussion from Dr. Martin Seligman.  Fran suggested I check it out.
Martin Seligman founded the field of positive psychology in 2000, and has devoted his career since then to furthering the study of positive emotion, positive character traits, and positive institutions. It’s a fascinating field of study that had few empirical, scientific measures — [...]

This is for Maddy! Enjoy!

Building the LEGO Millennium Falcon from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

I was just introduced to this resource yesterday.  It is a visual way to search, store, and share web pages.  It is a really nice way to collect resources for teaching and gather them into one place and then share them with students.  Here is the Stacks Widget–try it out:

You can find Stacks at:

http://www.searchme.com
http://www.searchme.com/stacks/

We had these at a Kindergarten team meeting and they were great.  It is a recipe from one of the K teachers. Enjoy.
“KILLER BROWNIES”
One package brownie cake mix–prepare as directed on the back of the box and put in a 9×13 pan–DO NOT bake yet!!
Mix one can sweetened condensed milk, 2 cups crushed graham crackers [...]

I made this soup for a staff pot luck and they have been bugging me for the recipe for the last month. So here it is. Enjoy!
David’s Wild Rice Soup

3 Cups uncooked Wild Rice (I use Lundberg’s Wild Rice Blend, you will need 2 packages to make 3 [...]

I have been working with the EP Family Center for a couple of months developing their new website.  The site has gone through several iterations, but I think we have come to a good solution for them.  You can see the nearly finished version here and the old version here–you better hurry though, because on [...]

I have been having a ton of back pain for the last couple of weeks.  I started with the chiropractor and he sent me to the orthopedist who took x-rays and an MRI.  Turns out it is spondylothisis (sp) (mis-alignment of two vertebrae) and a herniated disc.  I am going in for a cortisol epidural [...]