Creative Success Depends on Long View
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Drama Exit Stage Left
Whew! I’m glad that you could make it today.
I had a rough week last week. My neighbors were outside drinking and being obnoxious and extremely rude. I peaked my head out of the door to see what all the commotion was about and then my [...]
Kindergarten Mom: Help, My Child is Shutting Down
Anxiety over your child’s school-based problems can start very early.
A mom recently contacted me after reading The Shut-Down Learner.
“My son is drowning in school. Do you think he could be a shut-down learner?”
After asking a few more [...]
Don’t Worry. Be Happy
Remember that song “Don’t Worry. Be Happy”?
I used to really hate it. I thought it was the worst song in the world. It was silly, simple, and not very creative. Still, I couldn’t help but notice that it was just catchy [...]
Give Thanks for the Next Day
Let me give you a vision. . .ready?
Turkey is prepared to be cooked with all the trimmings and your mother has just came back from the store with extra cans of your favorite vegetables and sweets. Everybody sits down for a moment to have a [...]
Halloween Horror Nights and Life Lessons?
Halloween is here.
Last night some friends of mine and I headed over to Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights. Our whole intention was to have fun and to help a friend of ours from England experience Halloween American style. Apparently [...]
Let’s Talk About Shoes
Go buy shoes.
There is only one thing to do when the world’s calamities conspire with personal and professional pressures to dump a load of crap on your head: go buy shoes. We love getting new shoes because we know our shoe size won’t double [...]
Beware of Facebook Phishes
I got an email from a colleague:
Subject: “My Facebook account got hacked.”
I wonder if you could give me some guidance here –
I received the following email from Facebook:
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From: [...]
I Didn’t Attend the Awards
I won!?
I won the best lead performer/actress award…again!? And I didn’t attend the awards. It’s 11pm and I am getting all these phone calls from people who care and want to congratulate me and I didn’t attend the awards. What was [...]
“SEXT” Time, You May Not Be So Lucky!
IPhone 5
The “newest, best-ever, state-of-the-art” cell phone just came out. The I-Phone V. Does your teen want it? Have it? Beg you for it? My guess is yes! Seems like every month or so, the “newest and best cell phone” [...]
School Struggles
Janine, is a sweet 8-year-old child.
She is charming, bubbly, spontaneous and fun to be around. Janine is also struggling at school and the gap is widening between where other children are in her grade level and the reality of where she is [...]
Why Run Away To Join The Circus When It’s At Home?
Remember that crazed clown at the circus?
He was the one spinning a dozen flaming torches while peddling a unicycle on a high wire as the out-of-tune calliope wheezed out a medley of manic music. Now as a young woman you’re probably not impressed [...]
Should Teachers Be Friending Kids?
Friend ban
Teachers in numerous Massachusetts cities and towns are not allowed to “friend’’ students on Facebook or other social networking sites, and a number of other school districts south of Boston are considering a similar ban.
For [...]
Let’s Try This: What’s Right with Me?
Have you ever asked yourself, “What’s wrong with me?”
Plenty of times I bet. This kind of self-talk stems from an over-emphasis in our culture of trying to fix what doesn’t belong or LOOK like it doesn’t belong to what is considered [...]
Sometimes… Big Girls Do Cry
What? You didn’t renew my domain name! What?
It will cost how much? What? My car is leaking oil?
What? The garage door won’t open? What? I need a crown on my tooth? What? The plane has been delayed? What? The Skype won’t [...]
The Evolution of Communication: Forget Voice, It’s All About Data
Forget voice, it’s all about data
I was at the J-Lo and Enrique Iglesias concert in Atlanta recently and was struck by the thousands of fans around me (ok, myself included) taking pictures and shooting video from their cell phones; and I was [...]
Is Text Messaging Creating A Social Communication Misfit Generation?
Compromising communication
Let me be the first to say, well at least one of the first to say that I called this a couple of years ago when texting first started becoming popular, “There is going to come a time when communication skills [...]
A Phone Call is Worth More than Words
I know texting, emailing and social media is the way everyone communicates today.
The internet has put us all in touch in an instant making it easier to organize our life, share a joke, or keep in touch with people you wouldn’t ordinarily [...]
Now What? At 60, 70, 80, 90, or even 100?
I’m a senior?
Hey, what about me?!!! I’m so on top of it, I just won an AAU World Champion Powerlifting competition. Wow! In fact, I set 10 world records. In what category you ask? Old and little! So, what’s next? I’m only [...]
Make Time for Yourself and Get Happy
Tweak Your Schedule
Tweaking your daily schedule can make the difference between living a happy life versus slugging it out day after day. Let’s face it: we all have busy lives with more than enough things that have to get done every day. [...]
Quarter-Life Crisis Or Just Complaining?
The worries of young people
“The future,” she said. “My greatest worries are about the future.” Here was another twenty-something woman opening up about what caused her the most worry and here was the exact same answer I had heard from [...]
Online Schools: A Safe Alternative to Brick-and-Mortar Universities?
Online education
We cannot turn on the news today without hearing something about an industry that went relatively unnoticed just a few years ago – online education. Online education, and specifically the for-profit education sector, has become [...]
Blueberry Muffins
It was Sunday night and my family and I were settling in getting ready for another big week.
This week was definitely going to be another busy one, there were dinners to make, money to make, things to clean, kids to clean, laundry to do, essays [...]
Maintaining Positivity In Your Life
Accentuate the positive
Hey purty! How do you stay focused on positive family values and lifestyle when the news around you is showing war, rumors of war and often times financial and family crisis? I’m going to share a few tips to help [...]
Midlife Sage-What I Wish I Had Known As A Young Woman
Avoid the muck
Women spend too many years struggling and stressing through all the crap of daily life before they finally realize the aching truth: Damn, I should have taken the path around the bog! That’s the road that avoids the muck and [...]
Spicin’ it Up: Back To School
A speaking event
I was the keynote speaker this past week for the 1200 or so teachers and staff of the Hazelwood School District here in St. Louis. I hadn’t been there for several years and had forgotten how huge it is. I also know I am getting [...]
Opening Up to Authentic Relationships
A collective consciousness
Our beliefs, thoughts, feelings, words and actions are forms of energy, which has a unique Cause and Effect. Cause and Effect coupled with Balance is when all pieces of the puzzle come together. Although, many people [...]
Getting Beyond the IQ Score
More than IQ score
When I do testing one of my least favorite questions that I inevitably get is, “So what’s his/her IQ?”
In previous blogs, I have tried to illustrate how the IQ can hold a child hostage to not receiving services he/she [...]
The Future of Education
Will MOOCs will replace “traditional” online universities?
This blog entry is based off of a relatively heated Yahoo Forum discussion about what adjuncts and the for-profit education sector can expect as a result of the Massive [...]
2013: A To-Do List for College Students
Two years ago, I rang in 2011 midway through my senior year of college: a time that, I realize in retrospect, lies somewhere between college and the real world.
During the last year of college, responsibilities are few and far between (financial [...]
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