The Sophia Project

Hey, y’all! I’m on vacation til mid-June, and while I’m away I’m recycling a few oldies but goodies. Thanks for reading and enjoy!  A bunch of years ago, I was a new teacher. One night toward the end of the term, I watched my class full of students wrestling with a difficult concept, trying to [...]

Hey, y’all! I’m on vacation til mid-June, and while I’m away I’m recycling a few oldies but goodies. Thanks for reading and enjoy!  It’s a mistake to assume life’s always going to be easy. Or that happiness is ensured. Or that success is a linear process. Occasionally I slip into the faulty mindset that my [...]

I’ll be on vacation until mid-June. While I’m traveling, I’m indulging in the opportunity to unplug from the Internet and have some adventures in the real world. While I’m gone, please enjoy these “recycled” posts, starting with this oldie but goodie about why I periodically disconnect from social media. And thanks for reading! Over the [...]

I don’t mention it often in this blog, but I have a secret super power. I’m a counselor. That’s right. A therapist. A head shrinker. A touchy-feely do-gooder. I have nine and a half years of higher education and 18 years experience in the mental health field to back it up. I’ve got, like, 10 [...]

Today’s guest post is courtesy shamanic practitioner and writer Sandy Phocas. Sandy is based in Winston-Salem, NC, and also works in Virginia, Maryland, and South Carolina. She also serves as an instructor at the prestigious Omega Institute in New York. If you knew your potential, you would laugh at your efforts to fit into smaller [...]

Believe it or not, you will miss even the bullets and the cruel math teachers. For even the most horrifying memories are you; they are yours and no one else’s. And they, along with the good memories, are your life. ~ Mawi Asgedom, author of the memoir Of Beetles and Angels, about his family’s escape [...]

I want to describe to you where I’m sitting right now. I’m in the kitchen of a very old house. This house was built in 1861, just as the Civil War was starting. I look outside into the woods and wonder about the soldiers who marched by here, on their way to a losing war. [...]