What does being an advocate mean to you? Do you see it as speaking at the statehouse, insisting on funding for gifted and twice-exceptional programs?…
where wildly different is perfectly normal
Category: Gifted & Twice-Exceptional
Please, someone, tell me you also sometimes take the 30,000 foot view of humanity while lost in thought. Stepping back from the day to day…
I’ve had a question for parents of gifted and twice-exceptional kids that I’ve asked for years. What do you need? Inevitably the answer is something…
Pick your battles. Not everything is worth the fight, and my god we still have so many ahead of us. This? Worth it.
I often wish I felt as confident as my professional head-shot portrays. I see that photo and think, “That woman’s got it together. She’s solid…
Intensity is something I am intimately familiar with, in so many different respects. In music, it’s something I struggle to get my students to do. It’s…
I’m just going to cut to the chase. Heather Boorman’s new book, The Gifted Kids Workbook, is absolutely brilliant, it’s exactly what I needed a decade…
There are some posts here on Laughing at Chaos that are really hard for me to read. I start with a few words and suddenly…
I believe giftedness is wiring, the way a person observes, interprets, and responds to the world around them. They barrel out of the womb wired…
This is the story of two young men. Age peers, but there the similarities diverged, much like the path in the woods. This is the…