Blogging… The Sport of Writing 9 Apr 2011 Some sports are played against the clock. Their time-centered rules vary greatly, but they include judicious use of the time available. Basketball rushes through its quarters with shot clocks to…
Books… Friday Flick: Do Schools Kill Creativity? 8 Apr 20119 Apr 2011 Sir Ken Robinson, author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative, and The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, spoke at TED a few years ago about…
Blogging… Carved in Amethyst 7 Apr 2011 I didn't write today, and I wouldn't be here either except for this blogging commitment I made. But I did create! Last year a favorite necklace broke. Today I did…
Business… HBR on Hiring Humanities Majors 6 Apr 20116 Apr 2011 Second Road's Tony Golsby-Smith writes for a Harvard Business Review guest blog, "People trained in the humanities who study Shakespeare's poetry, or Cezanne's paintings, say, have learned to play with…
Brain… Well Manicured Writing 5 Apr 2011 What is it about a torn fingernail that demands to be torn, bitten, or sanded smooth? Why can't a loose tooth or burned palate be ignored? We seem…
Academic Writing… Bilingual Brain Advantage 4 Apr 20114 Apr 2011 During the decade politicians were banning bilingual education, I was in graduate school studying linguistics, including language acquisition--even bilingual language acquisition--and wishing we could all have bilingual (or trilingual) education.…
Blogging… A Word about Copyright 2 Apr 201122 Apr 2011 My composer son believes in copyright karma. In high school, while pirated music surrounded him, he could have played his iTunes around the clock for two weeks straight without duplicating a track,…
Humor… Friday Flick: A Job for Fools 1 Apr 20111 Apr 2011 On the subject of fools, naturally, I think of Shakespeare. Like great writers, Shakespeare's fools comfort, entertain, and dare to tell the truth. Some claim Shakespeare knew the original…
Blogging… Warning to Fellow Bloggers 31 Mar 201131 Mar 2011 A word to the wise: whatever you blog about, never stray into that dangerous topic territory known as Ice Cream. If you blog about Ice Cream, the purveyors of Ice…
Blogging… Halt! Who Goes There? 30 Mar 2011 I can't decide what to say to you today because I don't know who in the heck you are! When I teach students about the proverbial rhetorical triangle--how their ideas,…
Caring… Quakebook 29 Mar 201130 Mar 2011 This might be a new speed record in book collaboration and instant publishing. 2:46 Quakebook. Call for submissions: Twitter's @OurManInAbiko. Three weeks later: an online version of the book. It's…
Business… Writing and Ice Cream 28 Mar 2011 One of my youngest fans requested that I blog about ice cream. "How is ice cream related to Writers' Resort?" "Easy," he said. "Resort equals ice cream." Ah. It has…
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