This season the Lady Phoenix Laxers came right out of the chute, one-by-one knocking off […]
Rule #25 – Drop Charlie Everybody Like a Bad Habit
School life, like family and work life, comes with a familiar assortment of common issues. […]
Rule #24 – Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously
Whereas Rule #19 demands that we not take things personally, this one asks us to […]
Rule #23 – You Don’t Get Something for Nothing
Here’s another one of those adages that rolls off the tongue so often that we […]
The Zen of JV Football
Scene: Outside a New York coffee shop at 69th and Lex. A voice from behind […]
Rule #22 – Raise Yourself in Your Own Eyes
My philosophy of education can be summarized in two quotes. The first – in both […]
Rule #21 – Find Someone to Make You Do What You Can
This one comes from a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Our chief want in life […]
Is this my issue?
Maine radio stations and newspapers have been buzzing this week with discussion about an incident […]
Rule #20 – Don’t Play Small
If I could improve upon the words of Marianne Williamson, I would. But I can’t. […]
Rule #19 – Don’t take it personally.
At the Hyde Schools, we are expected both to offer and to receive constructive criticism […]