Judy Lindquist

It was a sunny Saturday morning and I was struggling with a choice…do I attend the Writer’s Workshop I had penciled in on my calendar, or...

The message came through on my phone. “Call me this weekend if you can.” It was not an unexpected text. It was from a high school friend....

This last week, as part of my role as liaison between our elementary school and the local university, I was able to get ten college...

My daughter recently told me that she was giving up the pursuit of Work-Life Balance, and was instead going to strive for Work-Life...

It was almost exactly a year ago when I posted a blog imploring the public to stop attacking teachers. Begging people to resist the urge...

“Two heads are better than one.” “Many hands make light work.” It does not take much digging to find quotes touting the value of working...

This last week I found out that my latest, as yet unpublished, middle grades novel was a semi-finalist in a respected writing...

As our new school year gets underway, there continues to be a teacher shortage. Many years in the making, there are clearly many factors...

Summer is over. Yes, I realize that it is still the last couple of days of July and that the official first day of autumn is not until...

Induction. Onboarding. Orientation. There are a lot of words that can be used to describe the process of helping someone new to a...

I opened an email this week from one of my former students. She was one of my graduating 5th graders, and also was part of our school’s...

I have had an incredibly busy summer so far. It has been 25 days since school got out for the year, and I have had 15 days scheduled...

I spent the better part of last week at a Civics Conference at our local University. As a self-described social-studies-nerd, I was in...

I was watching some of my 8-year-old students working on a jigsaw puzzle a while back. It was a puzzle they had never seen before and...

Although Father’s Day has not been an official holiday as long as Mother’s Day has, (according to History.com, it did not become a...

Down the rabbit hole of research. An apt phrase for me and my fellow educators this week, as we are in the middle of a 10-day Teacher...

As the Spring 2023 semester wrapped up at the university where I teach, there was a reception to bring together some of the graduating...

I just finished my 29th year as an elementary school teacher. I have spent this last week, packing up my classroom for the summer....

It happened again last week. We were at a dinner party some friends were hosting. There were some out-of-state visitors there that we...

I always believed that Mother’s Day was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 and became an official U.S. holiday in 1914. A holiday that was...