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The Big Fresh December 12, 2015 Easy
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well, and requires no less practice. Alain de Botton I played hooky a few weeks ago. I filled...
The Big Fresh December 5, 2015 Just-Right Tech
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. Laurie Anderson Last week, I had the opportunity to attend a lecture and discussion by Genevieve Bell, vice president...
The Big Fresh November 28, 2015 Giving and Receiving
Connection doesn’t exist without giving and receiving. We need to give and we need to need. Brene Brown In Rising Strong, Brene Brown tells the story of how...
The Big Fresh November 21, 2015 Moo
The mere brute pleasure of reading – the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. Lord Chesterfield Last month I visited reading workshop in Katrina Edwards’ first-grade...
The Big Fresh November 14, 2015 Baseball and Background Knowledge
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. Thomas Boswell My husband is a professional baseball writer. Like...
The Big Fresh November 7, 2015 Little Notebooks
Memory is a complicated thing — a relative to truth, but not its twin. Barbara Kingsolver On the table where I sit each morning with my coffee — thinking and...
The Big Fresh October 31, 2015 Details
Only getting the A and Z without the B through Y, leaves you SOL. Loren Weisman Have you have had a boss who liked to say, “I’m a big-picture person...
The Big Fresh October 24, 2015 New Glasses
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. John Lubbock It had been ten years since I’d updated my eyeglasses. I love my contact lenses, so there...
The Big Fresh October 17, 2015 Mockingbird
They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk. Gene Roddenberry My parents raised my siblings and me on a small farm that...
The Big Fresh October 10, 2015 Passion or Craft
Once your eye and hand are trained to the skills of your craft, then it becomes possible – like driving – to go on autopilot and leave the world behind. ...
The Big Fresh October 3, 2015 The Tyranny of Levels
Education has produced a vast population able to read, but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan Once upon a time, there was a third-grade girl, Daisy,...
The Big Fresh September 26, 2015 Reading for Football
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. Bill Shankly...
The Big Fresh September 19, 2015 Learning from Bees
For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom. William Shakespeare A few years ago, my dad...
The Big Fresh September 12, 2015 They Just Write ‘Em
Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one. Lauren Raffo Years ago I scooched my chair up to a kindergartner during writing workshop. He was writing line after...
The Big Fresh September 5, 2015 Playing School
Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within. Joan Almon One day, Ava asked for an extra copy of a news magazine that I was...
The Big Fresh August 29, 2015 Norms
The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other. Thomas Stallkamp Recently I met with Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris, coauthors of the brilliant Think Tank...
The Big Fresh August 22, 2015 Whining and Learning
If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you’d be surprised by how well things can work out. Randy Pausch...
The Big Fresh August 15, 2015 The View from the Back of the Pack
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement — and we will make the goal. ...
The Big Fresh August 8, 2015 Cold Pool
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you. Bruce Lee One of my...
The Big Fresh August 1, 2015 What’s Worth Keeping
The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life. Marie Kondo Buried in the rubble of my many...
The Big Fresh July 25, 2015 The Power of a Read Aloud
Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking...
