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TGIF: Links to Inspire
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Happy Friday! Here’s a little happiness…
10 Things to Avoid if you want to be Happy!
3 Tips for Optimism from Thomas Edison
4 Ways to Increase Happiness
The Only Guide to Happiness You’ll Ever Need
7 How-to-be-Happy Lessons from Kids
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Candidates Education Platforms
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Hello! I’m finally starting to get a bit caught up again… Balancing entering the classroom with running two blogs is a bit more time-consuming than I expected, but I think my head is above water again…
As the election gets ever closer, I thought the following links might be particularly interesting. With such [...]
TGIF: Links to Inspire
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TGIF! Enjoy…
Michael Jordan’s Secrets to Success
8 Ways to Avoid Unproductive Meetings
50 Simple Happiness Boosters
45 Quotes about Ideas
3 Reasons to Stop Thinking So Much
Finally, the colon…
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A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
–Thomas Mann
Two weeks ago, when I posted about the dash, I had intended to include the colon as well since the function of the two marks of punctuation can be related. However, the lovely dash deserved its [...]
TGIF: Links to Inspire
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Hopefully all are enjoying lovely fall weather… Here’s a little inspiration!
Tips for becoming patient
15 Terrific Tutorial Websites
A surprising way to Get Things Done
How to pay off your debts
Why you should stop worrying
9 Reasons the Hyphen Is Important
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does — Jorge Borges
Well, I stand corrected… After a comment on last week’s post on the dash from Mrs. S asking “So when do I use a hyphen? Is that just for joining words together?“, I did a little research and realized [...]
Tutor.com
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Recently I embarked on a new teaching journey and would love to share a great resource with my readers.
Tutor.com is a website designed to connect students with qualified tutors. Students can either access the site from a library and receive 20 minutes of free instruction at a time (the library pays for the [...]
TGIF: Links to Inspire…
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TGIF everyone! Here are a few links to start our weekend off right…
Helen Keller’s Guide to Courageous Living
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Guide to Productivity
Keys to Unbridled Childlike Enthusiasm
6 Ways to Motivate Yourself at Work
10 Definitions of Happiness
The Dash
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Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there. — Thomas Berger
Two weeks ago, we happily found that the semicolon is a simple, yet powerful mark of punctuation. Well, the dash is even more powerful… Originally I was going to post on both the dash and the colon, but then quickly realized the [...]
Back in the (virtual) Classroom…
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Well, after a one week hiatus from LitGuides — dedicated to jumping back into the classroom — I’m excited to share a bunch of resources that I think might come in handy…
First, a little background on my week. After a much needed one year leave from teaching, I realized there were [...]
