Author Archives: Kathleen Cassen Mickelson

Summer Shift

Attention spans are curious things. We work with children to develop attention spans so that they can concentrate on learning, on making commitments, on completing tasks. But if you’re a writer or an artist or some kind of influencer, you are admonished to post on social media daily lest you drop out of everyone’s newsfeedContinue reading “Summer Shift”

Reading Pico Iyer, Appreciating Silence

Since my last post, in which I listed all the books I’ve read since the New Year plus two I had not yet finished, I became distracted by a new book that pulled me away from everything else I was reading: Aflame: Learning from Silence by Pico Iyer.

Ides of March

I’ve written before about finding whatever builds our resilience and nourishes our strength. We are all called to do world-changing acts, contribute to the good of others, especially when things are out of whack as they are now. Things we do to sustain ourselves in private moments matter to keep ourselves going. These are some of mine, in no particular order.