Category: Writing

  • Meaningful math literacy.

    Meaningful math literacy.

    Do what brings you joy. This mantra of centering joy has guided me to create a book that centers visualizations of many different ways to support and understand meaningful mathematics literacy. Next week I’ll be sharing some of the key ideas I develop in that book. Join me for this Free Webinar, Tuesday, April 15,…

  • Compassion, Curiosity for Monsters.

    Compassion, Curiosity for Monsters.

    Compassion and curiosity toward self remain key in healing and releasing “monsters” of self-doubt, criticism.

  • Showing up.

    Showing up.

    Showing up is important. Not only showing up for other people, but showing up for yourself. Lately, I’ve been showing up for myself by sharing my ideas. By embracing the inevitable vulnerability of sharing something personal–your art– in a way that is open for public critique. Preparing for a presentation to an international audience of…

  • Taking time.

    Taking time.

    When taking time to do something, or be somewhere, or with someone Time itself doesn’t matter; it needn’t enter into consciousness. My favorite ways of taking time occur as bookends to the day. A long breakfast, children shrieking and laughing, only silent while eating. Standing in the kitchen, enjoying coffee while cooking. Then again to…

  • Habit forming.

    Habit forming.

    Habit forming. March 2, 2018   I’m working on a new habit of opening my computer to continue my writing. I’m working on a new habit of being OK even when I’m in what I sense to be an uncomfortable situation. With bells ringing, trucks beeping, people talking, fans whirring, engines, motors, beings, all conceivably…

  • Being while doing.

    Being while doing.

    I wear multiple “hats” if you will. Mom, wife, researcher, collaborator, teacher, mentor, sister, daughter, granddaughter, aunt, to name a few. In each of these roles, I am asked to communicate, to lead, to converse, and to do. Often all I want is to just be. In drawing inward I find a great sense of…

  • Knowing when to rest.

    Knowing when to rest.

    March 3, 2018. I’m not good at knowing when to rest. Usually I work through my day, pushing from one thing to the next, with little time spared in between. When my stomach hurts, I know I have gone to far. The ideas and work flows from my finger tips yet but body urges me…

  • Writing and mindfulness.

    Writing and mindfulness.

    Writing is a practice that must be cultivated through dedicated practice.

  • Keys to playing the publishing game.

    Keys to playing the publishing game.

    Today I sat down to write and found myself sketching out ideas for how the ground the revision of a paper. I found myself then re-reading an article on publishing by 3 amazing women in #mathed that further inspired my learning Here is what I am learning about playing the publishing game… Contribution. You have something…

  • Caught in the middle.

    Caught in the middle.

    Do you see that? Do you see how I was stuck, and how I turned to writing as a release and way to make sense of my experience?