by Jason Dykstra | Jul 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
I often walk outside in the evenings of summer to enjoy the starlit peace and cool, gentle breeze. As I was doing so tonight, however, the serenity was interrupted several times by the loud booms and crackles of fireworks in numerous places. Although annoyed at first,...
by Jason Dykstra | Jul 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
I just returned home from playing 18 holes of mini-golf with my wife and three other very special people (as pictured): my two sons and my 10 year-old mentee. Given the recent increase in very emotionally-charged conversations about race and the situation of black...
by Jason Dykstra | Jun 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Guess what? I got to do it again! Right after recently guest teaching a section of my big sis Ms. Sherrington’s Creative Writing class, I had the privilege of doing it once more with her colleague’s class as well. One of the best aspects of teaching is how...
by Jason Dykstra | May 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
So yesterday I found myself totally lost in convoluted hallways, marveling at how tall the lockers were, and my older sister was there with me in the same building. The last time that all happened, I was a 14 year-old freshman, so I was having some major dejavu!...
by Jason Dykstra | Apr 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
I love me some Emperor’s New Groove! So in this scene we’ve got Pacha—suffering from a poverty of experience and resources—and we have Kuzco—suffering from a poverty of humility and compassion. For both intentional and unintentional reasons, they find...
by Jason Dykstra | Sep 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
I adamantly maintain that there are two transitions in life that teach you more than any others. The first is having a second child. The second is well, I won’t say, because everyone has at least one uniquely educational transition that I don’t know about!...
