A year ago, I wasn’t blogging or even remotely active in the world of social media. In fact, Paratus was just a beginning thought. When people ask me why I...

‘Tis the season for so much, isn’t it? Choir concerts, crowded parking lots, and school parties. Family gatherings, crackling fires, and flour-dusted kitchens. Yet, through all that busy, we feel...

As Autumn blazes out and the last colorful leaves fall from the trees, we tend to look inward. Maybe that’s because the landscape outdoors is so bleak that it doesn’t...

Nature has certainly set the scene for Part 2 in our discussion of cozy joy. Outside my window, and many of yours I imagine, there’s a blanket of white cloaking...

Time change week. It can produce exhausted kids and parents, internet memes, and darkness that creeps in before you’re even home from work.  Do you see any benefits to the...

How do you learn best? When you’re thinking through a problem, do you approach it with research and introspection or do you talk it through with someone? Many of us...

As summer heats up, perhaps you’re feeling some inner chill–finding the balance between work and relaxation that eludes you most of the school year. I hope so! But I know...

In the most extraordinary thing to hit Broadway in years, Hamilton brings one of America’s overlooked Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton, uniquely into the spotlight. But the really interesting thing about...

Let me introduce you to a friend of mine–we’ll call him Luke. You’ll find Luke racking up goals on the soccer fields of suburban America today, but his life wasn’t...

I find myself recently dabbling a bit more in the world of social media. I have been working in my field for about twenty years and decided it was time....