Category: Ch. 3: Writing

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  Model Teaching: Empowerment Through Multi-Faceted Instruction

  I’ve been teaching for a long time — long enough to see the spin of the pedagogical cycle of strategies… Read more.

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  Why We Fear Creativity, And How To Let Go

  I have been in this cafe for a little over an hour, writing in my Daybook to the ambient sounds… Read more.

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  On Authenticity and Taking Things Personally

  If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these… Read more.

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  Journaling: Your Greatest Investment

  One of the questions I am asked most frequently about the process of writing is which is most important: the… Read more.

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  The Child At My Door

  It was a late November night, And I was just about done. The stacks of papers that I needed to… Read more.

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  Pushing Through The Darkness: Faith, Trust, Commitment

  On June 16, when I cut ties with social media to focus entirely on finishing my book, Fossil Five, I… Read more.

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  Action in Darkness: The 105-Day Journey

  “Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.” Tao te Ching, 1       In 1992, when I completed… Read more.

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  I Am Profoundly Disappointed… and Determined

  By Rus VanWestervelt Late yesterday afternoon, I witnessed an unraveling of peace in my hometown, Baltimore. As I watched the… Read more.