I will not pull Cathy's braids. I will not talk in class. I will not throw paper airplanes. My elementary education involved a lot of forced affirmations. Stuck inside at recess, writing out fifty or a hundred times on a…
Read moreI will not pull Cathy's braids. I will not talk in class. I will not throw paper airplanes. My elementary education involved a lot of forced affirmations. Stuck inside at recess, writing out fifty or a hundred times on a…
Read moreIt is not those with the most skill who are successful, it is those with the most skills. Perfecting a single skill, such as the ability to hit a golf ball with great accuracy and consistency or shoot a hockey…
Read moreAre smartphones really making us smarter or are they making us dumber and more distracted? Distracted driving has overtaken drunk driving as the number one cause of accidents, including walking in to telephone poles. It is not unusual to go…
Read moreThe most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave it neither power nor time.
- Mary Oliver
We tend to think of…
Read moreMy recollection of learning how to write by hand is vague. I'm not sure if we had workbooks or gestetnered sheets we followed but suspect that the teacher simply modeled each letter on the chalkboard and we repeatedly copied them…
Read moreA pen has no spellcheck function but I think it's journaling. As a young boy I started writing in a notebook for something other than what was required in school. Much like school, the effort and outcome was a little…
Read morePerfection is not possible. No matter what I think, say, do or play, someone is going to reject, question or criticize. Usually the harshest critic of my work is that sometimes mean spirited little voice inside my own head. It…
Read moreI didn't like beer when I first tasted one - probably a slightly warm Molson Canadian that was fuzzy and bitter to my young taste buds. With time and exposure I developed a taste but soon became bored with beers…
Read moreThinking of ways to develop the habit of regular blogging, I decided to challenge myself to post every day for thirty days. The thirty day challenge is not an original idea. It is reported to be a method of ingraining…
Read moreIf you want to see curiosity in its purest form, watch a young child carefully - everything is new and full of wonder. As we move through our lives, our innate curiosity can stagnate under the weight of experience and…
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