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Posted on February 21, 2024 by Roffino
I didn’t hear it often, but when I did, it broke me a little: this giant of a middle schooler was crying, overcome with rage and worry. He had been acting out, as usual, earlier that day in a different class period. Juan, we’ll…
Category: "Conversations", Positivity & Hope, Roffino-Related
Posted on August 28, 2023 by Roffino
Many normal and apolitical people (people like me) don’t want to weigh into this political stuff like with Former President Donald Trump and the January 6th Committee. I personally don’t want to isolate sensible people who are conservative or sensible people who are more…
Category: "Conversations", Society
Posted on August 26, 2023 by Roffino
One thing I love about a new semester is that a predictable cycle starts again. One thing I DON’T love about a new semester is that a predictable cycle starts again. There is comfort in the sameness and there can be stagnation in it…
Posted on February 22, 2023 by Roffino
In my Comp 2 classes, I have started letting my students select a reader and one of my classes picked a great one. (This originally evolved from an issue/worry with Florida’s Governor Ron Desantis’s new restrictions on classroom topics, but in the end, it…
Posted on August 15, 2022 by Roffino
After teaching writing classes for more than 11 years with Dallas College, I have resigned from my full-time position to light out for other endeavors. It’s a family move, but I also love adventure and growing. At first, I wasn’t sure about Florida –…
Posted on August 6, 2022 by Roffino
Want some thinking about how to find calmness in the middle of a chaotic day, week, month, summer, or life? (More about MY chaotic summer soon…) Try reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I always feel a bit like a kid out…
Posted on April 6, 2022 by Roffino
Maria Ressa, one of the most well known journalists from the Philippines, fighter for FACTS, and as a result, winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, is sharing right now (Wednesday, April 6) about how fragile Democracy is right now. She is speaking as…
Posted on March 9, 2021 by Roffino
Would you risk your career and respect to share something that might shift laws and public perceptions?
Posted on December 30, 2020 by Roffino
Horrible, Haarible I once knew a pastor, an amazing and life-changing gentleman, who occasionally showed his Boston roots with a hint of an accent. I will always remember the way he described the brutality of the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s…
Category: "Conversations", Life Coaching Related, Positivity & Hope, Society Tags: 2020, Mindset, perspective
Posted on August 12, 2020 by Roffino
Civil Rights leader and US Representative John Lewis recently passed away. People who do not think of John Lewis as a hero are missing something. Either they don’t know how tirelessly he fought for equality and justice, without throwing an insult or a punch….
Category: "Conversations", Heroes, Positivity & Hope, Society, Writing/Work Worth Discussing Tags: black lives matter, blm, hero, John Lewis
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