Choice Lit Topic: Big Fresh Archives
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The Big Fresh August 18, 2018 Lily Pads
You only see the top of a lily pad, but if you pull the lily pad out of the water, it has roots and tangled weeds and all the stuff...
The Big Fresh August 11, 2018 Stubborn Gladness
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. Samuel Johnson One of the hardest things about living in truly challenging times is that I’ve lost my sense...
The Big Fresh August 4, 2018 Surprise
No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. Robert Frost Huh? I don’t know what you mean. Well, nothing I guess. I mean, I wrote it. I’ve just...
The Big Fresh July 28, 2018 Passion for Work
It’s your place in the world, it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. Mae Jemison...
The Big Fresh July 21, 2018 Hitting Save
Your calm mind is your ultimate weapon against your challenges. Bryant McGill Over the past few years I have shifted from drafting in documents saved on a single computer’s...
The Big Fresh July 14, 2018 Work and Play
This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it...
The Big Fresh June 23, 2018 Time to Write
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. Anne Frank I live in coastal Maine where summer is the high season for...
The Big Fresh June 16, 2018 Old Boat
The problem with hoarding is that you end up living off your reserves. Eventually, you’ll become stale. If you give away everything you have, you are left with nothing. This...
The Big Fresh June 9, 2018 Free Range
The more risks you allow children, the better they learn to take care of themselves. Roald Dahl When I was a kid, most sunny summer days when I was...
The Big Fresh June 2, 2018 Memory
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. Guy de Maupassant There I was, undeniably at my...
The Big Fresh May 26, 2018 Everyday Subversions
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. Abbie Hoffman Earlier this month I visited Franki Sibberson’s fifth-grade classroom in Dublin, Ohio. She began a writing...
The Big Fresh May 19, 2018 Style
Fashion changes, but style endures. Coco Chanel I recently went to a presentation on developing a company style guide. I thought it would be about Oxford commas, and was...
The Big Fresh May 12, 2018 Appearances
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. Baltasar Gracián Last fall I had the pleasure of hearing...
The Big Fresh May 5, 2018 The Space Between
A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins. Martin Heidegger In the early 1980s, many years before there were hundreds of Starbucks,...
The Big Fresh April 28, 2018 Doing Enough
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt Years ago, at the end of the school day, I was tidying up my classroom and getting...
The Big Fresh April 21, 2018 Big Dog
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog. Dwight D. Eisenhower I was on an early...
The Big Fresh April 14, 2018 Radio Hatteras
Radio is the theater of the mind. Steve Allen My husband and I spend time each winter in Hatteras, a tiny fishing village on a spit of sand 70 miles...
The Big Fresh April 7, 2018 Reading the World
Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?” Shannon Alder A few months back, a...
The Big Fresh March 31, 2018 What Cannot Be Unseen
Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong. Maurice Sendak Almost 100 years ago, Maurice Sendak was a child walking down the street in his city neighborhood when he...
The Big Fresh March 24, 2018 Just Read
Are we not like two volumes of one book? Marceline Desbordes-Valmore I’m reading Beverly Cleary’s Ramona Quimby book series aloud with my eight-year-old daughter. She devours every word, because...
The Big Fresh March 17, 2018 Finally Spring
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. Doug Larson Ahhhhh. The calendar finally turns this week to spring, which means we’re about...
