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Sometimes you have to let everything go and just live. I think you’ll like what you find on the other side. A very relaxed post for a change.
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Many parents tell their kids they have a right to fight in self-defense. Is this notion of “I’m defending myself” really worth them getting killed over? Let’s go beyond our animal urges and look at the psychology of what we tell our kids.
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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe via -or- I have a job where I am constantly second guessing things I can say and examples I can give as to their apporpriateness. I teach 9 year olds. Through the years I have learned that humor can open up closed minds to [...]
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A police friend I know has been shot at, threatened and scared half to death by some of the criminals he’s dealt with. Another fireman friend of mine from years back has almost destroyed his back pulling people out of burning buildings. As for me, I deal with something every day more ominous than [...]
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I got that title from an old Alarm song. It’s a great tune with an even greater message for the visionaries among us in 2008.
Instead of waiting for others to be our inspiration, we have to be the inspiration to others AND to ourselves.
As you may have gathered from this series’ title, I grew [...]
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I wrote a short blurb at Dynamite Lesson Plan this morning about email at work and something I am doing now.
What do you think about “request read receipts?”
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