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  • Ramblin’ on 10/19/13

    Ramblin’ on 10/19/13

    Great morning. I’m reading (again) Meditations From the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga. It contains 365 short chapters (just 1-2 pages each) on living a healthy, spiritual life following a practice of yoga and meditation. The readings seem so timely in my life. Always. This morning’s reading was all about healing ourselves…

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  • Follow Your Passion

    Shift Your Energy, And Everything Changes. We all carry within us an enormous, limitless supply of energy and creativity. It has to come out of us in some form, and we make the decision time and time again how we expend it. Some of us make these decisions consciously; others have thrown themselves at the…

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  • Postmarked: Piper’s Reach Ends – My First Response

    I have had the pleasure of following the 3-season serial epistolary novella online for the last 18 months, and last evening, the final letters were posted. You can read this post HERE, or you can view the website HERE with all three seasons intact (hurry, though; this will disappear in a few weeks in preparation…

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  • No Comparison: Why Everything’s Different For Today’s Children

    (previously published at http://www.towson.patch.com, 9/8/2012) September 9-15, 2012, is National Suicide Prevention Week, and the link between bullying and suicide attempts is alarming. According to numerous studies by Yale University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, bully victims are between two and nine times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims. For more…

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  • Sidewalk Applause: Bookends of a Tragedy

        Last evening, just before 9 p.m., the second suspect of the Boston Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was taken in to custody –injured with gun shots to the head and hand– and placed in an ambulance. Within minutes, the medic unit then led the convoy of emergency vehicles along Franklin St. and toward Beth…

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  • Come Together: Reflections From A 30-Year Reunion

    The chill of the late night flushed away the heat in my face, and I dug deep in my left denim pocket for my keys, looking over my shoulder one last time at the entrance of Chops Restaurant and Lounge. Shawn had her arms wrapped around another alum who was leaving for the night, and…

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  • Being Impeccable With Your Time: Making Every Moment Matter

    Being Impeccable With Your Time: Making Every Moment Matter

    It’s a colder-than-usual April morning, and I have been up since 4:47 a.m., reading and writing, thinking and learning, meditating and relaxing. It’s a ritual of mine that I have practiced for nearly 30 years, and it has made all the difference in living a full and inspired life. I am a self-described early-morning person.…

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  • Give Education Reform Projects A Chance

    I am one of the lucky teachers who gets the chance to work with students for four straight years while they are in high school. When young journalism or graphics/design students enter my classroom as freshmen, I know that I can establish a 4-year plan toward independence, autonomy, and confidence in the work they produce,…

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  • Writing Strengthens the Soul: For the Present and the Future

    I say it all the time: Your Story Matters, and for so many reasons. Most of the time, the “Your Story Matters” phrase is something I tell people who want to write their story but are afraid to start. They might be afraid of judgment (more on this later about what assessment-driven writing is doing…

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  • Keeping Connections Through Letters and Art

    Earlier today, I wrote and published the following creativity prompt on our CCAI and Smash365 websites: Today’s Free Creativity Prompt: I have several friends who have created or participated in mail projects that have been both artistic and inspiring. Some of these projects are Laura Shovan’s Poetry Postcard Project, Mary Cartledgehayes’ MailArt Project, as well…

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