Talking Stories with Eleanor, Part 1Last week I had coffee with my friend, Eleanor Stanton, the associate pastor at the Presbyterian- New England Congregational Church in Saratoga Springs. She talked…
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Up and Over the Black Belt Wall!Lisa and Jennifer’s daughters at the end of their Black Belt test Dr. Lisa’s Parent Coaching Tip: Ask your child if there is something that…
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Is There Only One Right Answer?Here on the Lion’s Whiskers blog we have had much to say, recently, on the topic of moral courage and morality – how it is…
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CandlelightCandles are magical. The Lovely K. and I light candles at dinner most nights, and try to bring someone into our circle of flickering light…
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The Black Belt WallLisa’s son competing in board breaking in November, 2011 as a “Recommended Black Belt” Jennifer and my children are testing for their Black Belts in…
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Surviving the Lion AND the Fox!I found a very interesting story the other day that highlights moral courage in an unusual way. Animal fables typically offer the lion and the…
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Jean Labadie’s Big Black Dog and Shivering in the BathHere is an old Quebecois story I ran across recently in Kevin Crossley Holland’s The Young Oxford Book of Folk Tales. It’s an easy story…
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Quitters, Campers, and Climbers—Which One Are You?I would have thought that one of the side effects of writing a blog about courage would be an increase in my own courage quotient. In fact,…
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Wait for it… Wait for it!Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. ~ Clare Booth Luce For nearly a year now we’ve been talking about the…
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Four DragonsIn the West, we frequently use dragons as a metaphor for evils, wrongs, or unnamed fears that must be conquered. In China, however, dragons are…
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