Tracy Willis Gates, founder of a Few Kind Words, a movement for giving a handwritten note of appreciation to someone every day for a year: “We all have the power to make someone’s … more

Jen Hatmaker, best selling author and speaker: “Every spring, we can rely on new growth: in nature, obviously, but often in our own souls, from the seeds that we planted in past seasons. There … more

Joan Walsh Anglund: “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has as song.”    Girls and boys winter 1 modified sports … more

Harper Lee “Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”     A reminder to parents that the … more

Fall is here in full force and though many empty streams and riverbeds are screaming for rain, the weather has been incredibly beautiful. I am trying to get out into the gardens to put them to bed … more

Benjamin Franklin: “At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”     Friday, Oct. 4, the Sidney Central School Chapter of FFA … more

Courtney B. Vance, actor: “Sometimes you change people’s lives by saying ‘Good Morning.’ I always say to myself, “I’ll never see this person on the elevator, on … more

Physicist and writer Michael Guillen: “We behold it in a sunflower tracking the sun across the sky; the rise and fall of the tides, mirroring the lunar cycle; and birds nesting in perfect step … more

Students Brianna West, author. “Happiness is not having the best of everything but the ability to make the best of anything.”     The week of Sunday, Sept. 8 to Saturday, … more

Chip Conley, author of Learning to Love Midlife, on what people should ask themselves to prepare for the second half of their lives. “The number one question I would urge you to ask: What is it … more

Ruby Bridges, Civil Rights Activist   “Joy.   it is a journey.   But you know it’s something that you have to consciously do.   Make yourself happy.   In the … more

Mirabai Starr, author: “You cannot forgive without grace, and grace is not something you can demand. You can only sweep out the chamber of your soul and be ready to receive it when it … more