Jennifer Wolfe's Blog, page 15
June 21, 2017
Let Me Be: Poetry For Celebrating Summer Solstice
Poetry For Celebrating Summer Solstice Oh, the water lilies. See how they seem to open wider out of their own opening? Let me unfold like that—without thinking, without assuming I’m already open enough. Do not let me close up, all stiff and stoic, like a walnut that will not crack. Don’t let me become […]
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June 17, 2017
Don’t You Think Age Is Only A Number?
I was skimming Facebook today- because I’m on vacation and that’s what you do when you don’t have to wake up to an alarm, right? Sitting in my daughter’s college apartment, I saw a post from a mom who was at the beach with her three young children. It was a shot like many I take […]
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June 6, 2017
Teaching In Indonesia: What’s Similar And Different To The U.S.
*This is an update of posts chronicling my teaching in Jakarta, Indonesia, during Ramadan. As part of the U.S. State Department of Education’s IREX program, 10 teachers and I spent two weeks traveling, teaching, and creating friendships with Indonesian students. This trip was life-changing for me as a woman and a teacher; so many stereotypes […]
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June 3, 2017
The Fall of Lisa Bellow by Susan Perabo: A Must-Read About Mothers, Daughters, Trauma and Loss
“Sometimes in the morning, while she waited for her brother to get out of the bathroom, Meredith Oliver would stand in front of her bureau mirror, lock eyes with her reflection, and say, “This is me. This is really me. Right now. This is me. This is my real life. This is me.” ~from The […]
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May 30, 2017
Teaching Teenagers In Indonesia – They’re Not So Different From American Teens
*This is an update of posts chronicling my Teaching In Jakarta, Indonesia, During Ramadan. As part of the U.S. State Department of Education’s IREX program, 10 teachers and I spent two weeks traveling, teaching, and creating friendships with Indonesian students. This trip was life-changing for me as a woman and a teacher; so many stereotypes […]
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May 26, 2017
Teaching In Jakarta, Indonesia, During Ramadan
*This is an update of posts chronicling my teaching in Jakarta, Indonesia, during Ramadan. As part of the U.S. State Department of Education’s IREX program, 10 teachers and I spent two weeks traveling, teaching, and creating friendships with Indonesian students. This trip was life-changing for me as a woman and a teacher; so many stereotypes […]
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May 19, 2017
Taking Life Stitch By Stitch – Anne Lamott
“When you can step back at moments like these and see what is happening, when you watch people you love under fire or evaporating, you realize that the secret of life is patch patch patch. Thread your needle, make a knot, find one place on the other piece of torn cloth where you can make […]
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May 12, 2017
The Gods Are Here, In This Almost Empty Nest
“The Gods Are Here” This is no mountain But a house, No rock of solitude But a family chair, No wilds But life appearing As life anywhere domesticated, Yet I know the gods are here, And that if I touch them I will arise And take majesty into the kitchen.” ― Jean Toomer The Gods […]
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May 5, 2017
From Facebook to Snapchat to Instagram Stories, or Other Ways My Kids Make Me Feel My Age
“Mrs. Wolfe, you have a Snapchat?” my 9th-grade student sputtered. It was after school, and I naively left my phone front and center on my desk. Yes, indeed, baby Wolfe had chatted her middle-aged mother, and the world now knows. “Yep,” I smiled as I clicked off the screen. “How else would I know what […]
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April 29, 2017
Tired Of Gardening? You’re Doing It Wrong!
No surprise if you follow my Instagram – I love gardening. source Nothing better than gardening! There’s nothing better in life than a warm summer’s evening in a beautiful garden that you have created yourself. But many people miss out on this incredible experience and opportunity because they feel that gardening is just too much […]
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