by Leanne Kinney | Feb 13, 2015 | Holiday
For those of you who coerced me into this blogging thing, my apologies for only getting around to it every few months. It seems that I’m most compelled to rise above my hectic schedule to write something lately only at New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s (Singles...
by Leanne Kinney | Dec 31, 2014 | Holiday, Uncategorized
This year is different, and although I’m not sure I can explain why I’m compelled to talk about it anyway. Usually at this time of the evening on December 31, I’m counting down the hours until I can sweep the old year out the door and welcome in the new year. ...
by Leanne Kinney | Jan 1, 2014 | Holiday
My last blog of 2013 pointed out that it was a tough year. It was. But it also had some exceptional moments. These are a few things that made it special: Every single former student—whether it was a cadet who endured 5 years of my classes or the kid who was just a...
by Leanne Kinney | Dec 30, 2013 | Holiday, Learning from Life
(cue “Pomp and Circumstance”) Sometime in the next 48 hours I might just don my mortarboard and a feather boa and have myself some commencement exercises. That is how I feel about leaving 2013 and heading into 2014. It has definitely been an awkward year, and I...
by Leanne Kinney | Sep 10, 2013 | Holiday, Learning from Life
(This isn’t new material, but I revisit these memories every year. 2013 is the first year I won’t do Godspell since 2009, but it won’t be far from my heart.) Where was I on September 11, 2001? I was at home. At the time, I was building a...
by Leanne Kinney | May 12, 2013 | extraordinary people, Holiday
Everyone had a mother at one point. Some, like me, are very lucky–I still have my mother, and she is a great one. But lots of people still need mothers. Either they have lost them to death or estrangement, or their mothers just weren’t good mothers, or...
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