Change the World… Glow in the Dark 21 Feb 201125 Feb 2011 After spending our holiday immersed in a science center, absorbing sights and sounds, marveling at the microscopic and the telescopic, I'm not ready to write. Images and ideas are swirling,…
Academic Writing… Why Do I Have to Take this Class Anyway? 10 Feb 201112 Feb 2011 I haven't studied math since high school. I excelled in it. I took all four years of accelerated classes, keeping college majoring options open. Then I tested out of college…
Baby Boomers… How to Stop Time 9 Feb 20119 Feb 2011 A student who's juggling unemployment stress and family crises (while still getting his schoolwork done) asked, "Can you just tell me how to stop time?" The same day, my son…
Academic Writing… How to Get that Easy A 3 Feb 20113 Feb 2011 Show up. Show up on time, every time. Stay the whole time. Read the instructions. Listen to instructions. Try common sense. Be sober. Care for your health. Choose to learn.…
Brain… Education Knows No Boundaries 31 Jan 201130 Jan 2011 For the first five years of my formal education, Louisiana was the setting. Halfway through second grade, I was assigned to a new school, courtesy of the United States Supreme…
Blogging… A Slice of Sky 26 Jan 201126 Jan 2011 As soon as I discovered William Herschel's music and bio on KBAQ, I wanted to adopt the man as an honorary ancestor. William Herschel (Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel) professional musician and…
Blogging… Pause at the Threshold to Breathe 25 Jan 2011 You already know that my resolution for 2011 (besides this blogging challenge) is to BREATHE. To welcome support with that, I subscribed to the Chopra Center's 21-day Meditation Challenge. Today…
Change the World… Friday Flick: Working or Receiving? 21 Jan 201127 Jan 2011 Are you too busy working at writing to receive the work? Here's what a number of writers have to say about their experiences. It's "The Writing Spirit" from AuthorMagazine.org. (This…
Blogging… Information Radiation 19 Jan 201120 Jan 2011 My young scientist borrowed this laptop for school research. He’s preparing to impersonate Wilhelm Röentgen, the man who discovered and named x-rays (and had their units of measurement named for…
Brain… Friday Flick: Your Brain on Improv 14 Jan 201122 Jun 2011 Ever wonder why it feels so different to do something you've memorized rather than something you're making up on the fly? Ever notice that in certain activities you might do…
Change the World… Friday Flick: Arianna Huffington on the Secret to Success 7 Jan 20116 Jan 2011 If Arianna has time for this success secret, what's the matter with the rest of us?
Business… What Makes Me Smile 4 Jan 20113 Jan 2011 This passage shared in one of my end-of-the-year posts a couple years ago still makes me smile: I always knew that one day I would take this road but Yesterday…
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