Choice Lit Topic: Big Fresh Archives
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The Big Fresh March 19, 2016 Long Day
Make no judgments where you have no compassion. Anne McCaffrey It was the end of a long day in the middle of a long week that was part of...
The Big Fresh March 12, 2016 Don’t Settle
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become. Steve Jobs Recently, I stumbled across a quote that instantly resonated...
The Big Fresh March 5, 2016 A Tower of Giraffes
Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary. Tim Gunn A tower of giraffes. A drove of pigs. A scurry of squirrels. A brand new picture book is...
The Big Fresh February 27, 2016 The Game of Life
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you will never change the outcome. Michael Jordan We’re heading into March Madness, that nutty time when...
The Big Fresh February 20, 2016 Act the Way You Want to Feel
We won’t make ourselves more creative and productive by copying other people’s habits, even the habits of geniuses; we must know our own nature, and what habits serve us best....
The Big Fresh February 13, 2016 An Ear for Your Craft
Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out. ...
The Big Fresh February 6, 2016 Lessons from the Electrician
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. ...
The Big Fresh January 30, 2016 What’s New and Good?
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. Cynthia Ozick A friend I see once or twice a month always says the same words...
The Big Fresh January 23, 2016 No Balance
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. Alain de Botton If there is something people share as a struggle, it’s trying...
The Big Fresh January 16, 2016 Must Be Present to Win
Your true home is in the here and the now. ...
The Big Fresh January 9, 2016 Secret Messages
Your message means less than the way the message is delivered, because in actuality, the way the message is delivered, IS the message. Bryant McGill As we settled down...
The Big Fresh December 19, 2015 Unexpected
The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action. Andre Godin I am observing students in Katrina Edwards’ first-grade reading workshop during independent reading. It’s time to...
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...
