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Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable Be honest and transparent anyway Mother Teresa
Do you feel like a chicken whose lost its head somewhere over the past year and found it again over Christmas vacation? And having found it, you placed it firmly on your neck and started writing again? That’s funny- same think just happened to me. And I want to keep that head firmly planted this time. 2 weeks of […]
A few days ago I was listening to the radio as I drove, and overheard a lady speaking who, as a teenager, wanted to commit suicide. She thought life was so terrible and hopeless that there was no point to living. She said that she was in the midst of her suicide attempt when she […]
Haste boils When one should simmer And cries RUN! When one should ponder
I’ve been a College Writing Tutor now for awhile. I help college students write papers… all sorts of papers. One thing that has become very clear: if I can help the student create some kind of tentative (and very simple) outline, before they’ve even begun to write, then they will save precious time and have an organized planned […]
Wise words… Dream Big, Dream Often View original post
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
(one of my favorite poems ever) Move him into the sun— Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields half-sown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds,— Woke, […]
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man” ~Benjamin Franklin
