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Would you worry less with more info?

by Sara Marchessault At the start of a new semester a lot of conversations I overhear are laden with stress and worry. There’s concern about teacher expectations, surviving without parents, and finding resources needed to survive. My job is to teach them how to ask for help and find…

Are you ready to start keeping a journal?

by Sara Marchessault There is a chest at the foot of my bed. Inside of the chest, on the right-hand side, is a stack of books. They do not have titles on the covers, nor do they have an authors name on the side binding. Most of them have…

I bet you have a car repair journal

by Sara Marchessault It started on a Sunday. We were driving home from Jacksonville (2.5 hours from Tallahassee for non-Floridian readers) when we noticed the car wasn’t slipping into gear, but once we got going, we were fine. Plans were made to drop it off on Thursday…