100 Day Project – Day 29 – 8:03 p.m. Less is more in so many ways in life. Today, personally, I could sure do with less grief. Too much to explain, but too many losses too quickly in the last three months. Professionally, less is more in terms of my assigned readings for my classes […]
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100 Day Project – Day 29 – Less is More
October 4th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 29 – Less is More · 100 Days Project, College students, Musings, Reading, Teaching & Learning, Work
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100 Day Project – Day 28 – Reading
October 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 28 – Reading · 100 Days Project, College students, Musings, Reading, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Day Project – Day 28 – 12:49 p.m. First a word about the numbering of days: For those of you who care, and frankly, I’m not sure anyone does, somehow I skipped from Day 22 to Day 28. In my real life that was only 3 days – the weekend – since I last […]
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100 Day Project – Day 19 – Excuses and Reasons
September 26th, 2011 · 5 Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, Musings, photo of the week, Teaching & Learning, Work
Day 100 Project – Day 19 – 7:53 p.m. The excuses, oh sorry, reasons, have begun. Why my reading response is late, and when I’ll get it in to you — okay? I’ve learned at community college that many excuses are reasons; and incredibly legitimate reasons. Just today a young woman called to tell me […]
100 Day Project – Day 18 – Carla
September 25th, 2011 · 2 Comments · 100 Days Project, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Day Project – Day 18 – 1:45 p.m. (when I started) “Here’s the lesson: If you have something to say on the page, don’t hesitate. Don’t procrastinate. Don’t make excuses. Seize every moment you find to write. Honor your voice and your stories. Starting now. Because this moment is all we have–take it from […]
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100 Day Project – Day 17 – Power
September 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 17 – Power · 100 Days Project, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Day Project – Day 17 – 9:47 p.m. If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A student that I had last semester came up to […]