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.…
Courage… Friday Flick: “If I Should Have a Daughter” 25 Mar 201125 Mar 2011 Between sharing two of her own polished pieces, poet Sarah Kay shares her own creative emergence and that of her students. She suggests listing ten things you know to be true.…
Blogging… Some Lawyers Can Write 21 Mar 2011 If you've ever wondered how privacy issues would be handled on Krypton with its x-ray vision, or whether the statute of limitations applies in cases of time travel or suspended…
Collaboration… “There Will Be Rest” 19 Mar 201119 Mar 2011 Something extra today! Here's a recording from the concert I mentioned March 7. Yes, it's a recording, not the live music experience I advocated in that previous post, but it's…
Brain… “Let Silence Do the Heavy Lifting” 17 Mar 201118 Mar 2011 "Let silence do the heavy lifting." -- Susan Scott Lauren Owen quoted this in "10 Ways to Avoid Death by Meetings," suggesting we "give people some time to respond. As…
Children… The Order of Creation 16 Mar 201116 Mar 2011 Today's guest blogger says, "When you write a novel, you don't do it all at once! You take it in stages. First, you might think about what you're going to…
Books… Learning Overload 15 Mar 2011 No solitude today. Interestingly enough, it was an exhibit on brains which left my brain too saturated with vivid imagery, rapid delivery, random information, and crowd noises to process what…
Change the World… The Poetry of Music 7 Mar 20117 Mar 2011 I'm just home from a university choir concert, aptly named "Waxing Poetic." Several well-trained choirs from Arizona State University prepared sacred and humorous works, performed in a sacred space, and…
Change the World… You Can’t Want It More than They Do 2 Mar 2011 A dear friend often reminds me: "You can't want it more than they do!" How often have I campaigned for someone's results so relentlessly, I've forgotten whose fight it was.…
Change the World… Stories from College Drop-In Steve Jobs 1 Mar 201110 Mar 2011 “You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have…
Brain… My Students’ Best Advice 28 Feb 2011 My students are in finals week. I asked for advice to pass along to future students, and they all said, DON'T FALL BEHIND! They sound even more adamant than I…
Change the World… Are You Present? 17 Feb 201117 Feb 2011 My tag cloud records that I write with surprising frequency about "Being Present." It makes me laugh. Zen master, I am not. Obviously that's a message I crave. But today…
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