Margaret Lobenstine’s Renaissance Soul speaks directly to a contemporary psychological species: the person who delights in more than one thing and hates the shrink-wrap of a single career identity. Rather than treating multi-interest lives as a problem to be cured, Lobenstine treats them as a design challenge—one that asks readers to reconfigure time, narrative, and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Renaissance Soul by Margaret Lobenstine
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Who Moved My Cheese? by Spenser Johnson
“Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson presents itself as a deceptively simple fable, yet beneath its pared‑down narrative lies a rich allegory about change, fear, and human adaptation. Framed as a parable of two mice—Sniff and Scurry—and two “littlepeople”—Hem and Haw—who live in a maze in search of cheese, Johnson’s novella crystallizes complex psychological … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Who Moved My Cheese? by Spenser Johnson
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers
Susan Jeffers’s Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (1987) is often cited as a seminal self‑help text, yet its enduring power lies not merely in its pep‑talk ethos but in the discursive precision with which it maps the cartography of human anxiety. As a “literary scholar” might observe, Jeffers fashions her narrative less as a linear … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Context and StructureKahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (1923) is a collection of twenty-six poetic essays framed as the farewell address of Almustafa, “the chosen and the beloved,” to the people of Orphalese. Each chapter treats a universal aspect of human experience—Love, Marriage, Joy and Sorrow, Work, Prayer, Death—delivered in brief, aphoristic sermons. Gibran’s Lebanese-American background infuses the text … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – “Deliver Me From Negative Self-Talk: A Guide to Speaking Faith-Filled Words” by Lynn R. Davis
Lynn R. Davis’s Deliver Me From Negative Self-Talk emerges as a poignant guide for anyone grappling with the self-defeating narratives that hinder personal and spiritual growth. With its succinct structure and accessible prose, this book transcends the realm of traditional self-help, inviting readers into a transformative journey of faith and affirmation. Davis centers her approach on the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – “Deliver Me From Negative Self-Talk: A Guide to Speaking Faith-Filled Words” by Lynn R. Davis
The New Renaissance Mindset 