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The Big Fresh November 2, 2013 Running and Reading

As we run, we become.                                        Amby Burfoot I went out for the track team when I was 12, and I’ve been running ever since. Over the years, I’ve gotten...

The Big Fresh October 26, 2013 PD Overload

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.                                               Michael Altshule Glazed eyes. Hands being rubbed over eyes and foreheads. Lips formed into frowns or...

The Big Fresh October 19, 2013 Tending the Garden

Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When...

The Big Fresh October 12, 2013 Winning Deal

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.                                              John C. Maxwell I’m down...

The Big Fresh October 5, 2013 No Boundaries

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.                                              Aristotle A couple of months ago I was hosting a large family party. My sister Mary and I were in...

The Big Fresh September 28, 2013 Teaching the Genes

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code.  And many of the same genes.                                                                           Richard Dawkins My twelve-year-old daughter,...

The Big Fresh September 21, 2013 Say Yes

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.                                              Elbert Hubbard Literacy means different things to different kids. For some, it’s a respite from difficult things. It’s a chance to flip...

The Big Fresh September 14, 2013 The Spotlight

The question for the child is not “Do I want to be good?” but “Whom do I want to be like?”                                               Bruno Bettelheim Recently I viewed a video clip...

The Big Fresh September 7, 2013 Perfect Pie Crusts

Never doubt that a small, committed group of people with pies can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.            ...

The Big Fresh August 31, 2013 Chasing Joy

The most successful people I know got that way by ignoring the race to find the elusive, there’s-only-one-and-no-one-has-found-it right answer, and instead had the guts to look at the infinite...

The Big Fresh August 24, 2013 Texting About Reading

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.                                              Marion Garretty My younger sister Jenny hasn’t always thought of herself as a reader.  In her...

The Big Fresh August 17, 2013 Pausing Time

In the most successful spaces, you don’t see everything at once. The more time you spend in them, the more you discover. They open up like flowers.                                              Vicente Wolf...

The Big Fresh August 10, 2013 Awkward Is Good

Always choose awkwardness over resentment.                                               Brene Brown When...

The Big Fresh August 3, 2013 What We Teach

We teach people how to treat us.                                               Phil McGraw There is a man running a local coffee shop who gives me the impression he doesn’t like his business very...

The Big Fresh July 27, 2013 Growth and Choice

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.                                                             ...

The Big Fresh July 20, 2013 A Reader and Her Books

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.                                               E.P. Whipple  I have always adored books. Actual books.  The kind with pages, and hard covers, and snapshots of happy...

The Big Fresh July 13, 2013 One and Dones

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.                                                Nelson Mandela   I always struggled to connect...

The Big Fresh June 29, 2013 It Just Takes Time

Time is the longest distance between two places.                                   Tennessee Williams I recently had the good fortune of becoming a second-time mom. When other parents ask me how things are...

The Big Fresh June 22, 2013 Cues, Rewards, and Habits

Habits are at first cobwebs, and then cables.                                         Spanish Proverb I visited Shari Frost in Chicago last month, and we discussed writing projects over a meal at one of...

The Big Fresh June 15, 2013 Plans and Reality

There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.                                                                          Lalita...

The Big Fresh June 8, 2013 A Sense of Place

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.                                                Alec Waugh Last month I visited Deb Gaby, an instructional coach in northern Indiana....