by Pearl Klein | Jun 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
“Clearwater education works because students take primary responsibility for their learning and their school. Each day, students make decisions about how to spend their time, how to reach their goals and how to get along with other members of the...
by Pearl Klein | May 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’m creating a contract with a friend. This is not a contract about friendship, it’s a contract about work. I often work with friends, or make friends with people I work with, or pay people I come to consider my friends (I call them “paid...
by Pearl Klein | May 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
There are a lot of things that we SHOULD do because they are good for us. I’m guessing you already know what they are, unless you’ve been sleeping (8 hours a day, starting no later than 10pm, in a completely dark room, no phone plugged in by your head, no...
by Pearl Klein | May 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
People who are younger than me have started dying. Of course, that’s a lie, a lie I tell myself alternately as a comfort and as a spur to action. They’ve always been dying, but now that I’m in my mid-century, people in their 40s seem like...
by Pearl Klein | May 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
My Aunt Adaire told me a joke a long time ago about a group of people driving to Houston. As they went along they saw road signs: “Houston 200 miles,” “Houston 126 miles,” “Houston 50 miles.” When they saw a sign that said...
