Archive for August, 2008
TGIF: Links to Inspire
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Now we’re off to Colorado… Enjoy!
Learn to Say No!
5 Ways to Escape Work Stress
7 Ways to Tackle the Multi-tasking Virus
8 Ways to Have a Productive Day
How to Create Profound and Lasting Change
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Wonderful Vocab Resource List
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A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a great resource list of vocabulary sites, courtesy of Dumb Little Man. Here is a sampling of ways to improve your vocabulary:
Visuwords is an awesome visual tool to find new words and improve your vocabulary. When you look up a word in this tool, it [...]
Comma Loose Ends…
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. — T. S. Eliot
Two weeks ago we tackled the role of the comma in lists… then we wrangled with commas and clauses… now we move on to the first of two weeks that address the loose ends of commas…
First, the use of commas [...]
What Adults Are (really) reading…
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After the past few weeks considering what today’s youth are reading, should be reading, and should not be reading, a couple of articles examining what (adult) bestseller lists indicate about the culture and country of those readers seemed in order. First, the current bestseller lists of the U.S. and the U.K. and More [...]
TGIF: Links to Inspire
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We are spending one of the last remaining weekends of summer at our cabin… Hope these tidbits make your day a little bit better…
How to Stay on Track
10 Ways to Find Inner Peace
5 Common Obstacles to Achieving Your Goals
How to Achieve Any Goal
Timeless Tips for Writing Well
What Kids Should Read…?
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So, after discussing what kiddos should not be reading, here’s a recent post by the Millions on what they should be reading: New York Review’s Children Classics.
Check out a sampling of which works made the cut and let me know if you agree with the NYR’s choices! (I only recognize Thurber’s [...]
Tuesday Tips: Commas and Clauses
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O’Brien
Last week we tackled the role of the comma in lists… now we move on to a slightly more difficult task — the use of commas [...]
Age Labels — helpful or hurtful?
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I just loved the comments my post last Wednesday on “Reading at all costs” engendered and thought I would see what folks think about another current controversy raging through the stacks: “Age Banding” books. The idea is to give parents and teachers an idea of what age-group might be ready for a [...]
TGIF: Links of Inspiration
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As the school year nears, hopefully these links will help ease the transition…
9 Simple Tips for Olympic Success
7 Lessons from the 2008 Opening Ceremony
Why Worrying Gets You Nowhere
How to Do Less and Get More Done
8 Ways to Train Your Mind
Reading at any cost?
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Yesterday I stumbled across an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about a trend in publishing to get more boys reading. Check out this excerpt of the article:
Publishers are hawking more gory and gross books to appeal to an elusive market: boys — many of whom would rather go to the [...]
