Choice Lit Topic: Big Fresh Archives
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The Big Fresh June 1, 2013 Trade Secrets
If we knew each other’s secrets, what comforts we should find. John Churton Collins...
The Big Fresh May 25, 2013 Kick It In
Once you’ve committed yourself to something, pace yourself to the finish line. ...
The Big Fresh May 18, 2013 When a Phone Is Not a Phone
There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use...
The Big Fresh May 11, 2013 Correcting Too Soon
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu Have you ever had the experience of navigating a website in front...
The Big Fresh May 4, 2013 Grandmother Clause
If you can’t explain your ideas to your grandmother in terms that she understands, you don’t know your subject well enough. Matthew Frederick My mom purchased an iPad a...
The Big Fresh April 27, 2013 Stories
To be a person is to have a story to tell. Isak Dinesen I am sitting in Melissa Kolb’s preschool class next to Bree, a quiet, dark-haired girl who...
The Big Fresh April 20, 2013 Data Trouble
The world is one big data problem. There’s a bit of arrogance in that, and a bit of truth as well. Andrew McAfee There I was at the YMCA...
The Big Fresh April 13, 2013 Rename It
Don’t call a spade a spade. Matt Huston Tax Day is right around the corner, and for many that three-letter word T-A-X triggers anxiety. For some it is the...
The Big Fresh April 6, 2013 Thanks
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a...
The Big Fresh March 30, 2013 Appreciation
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. William James I’ve often wondered why people choose the bumper stickers they do. Stickers like “My kid...
The Big Fresh March 23, 2013 Reteaching
Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness . . . Galway Kinnell I’m in a long line of idling cars to pick up my daughter at...
The Big Fresh March 16, 2013 Temptation and Willpower
I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it. Mae West Lately I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about willpower — how individuals build or lose focus and...
The Big Fresh March 9, 2013 Without Cheating
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. Lin Yutang In tiny print at the bottom of an article titled,...
The Big Fresh March 2, 2013 Notes
We write to remember our nows later. Terri Guillemets When I was in graduate school in the 1980s, I was fascinated by the research project of my favorite English...
The Big Fresh February 23, 2013 What’s Your Password?
You become what you think about most of the time. Brian Tracy When I made the decision to improve my financial literacy, I set up several new accounts online....
The Big Fresh February 16, 2013 Small Things
Nothing can be done except little by little. Charles Baudelaire Two weeks ago 18 Choice Literacy contributors gathered in Portland, Oregon, for a weekend writing retreat. As part of...
The Big Fresh February 9, 2013 Add Ons
A lot of times people don’t know what they want until you show it to them. Steve Jobs I agree with Steve Jobs’ words regarding innovation, but I think...
The Big Fresh February 2, 2013 Big Lists
The list could go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list . . . Umberto Eco For much of my professional life, all lists have been...
The Big Fresh January 26, 2013 The Stick Game
Half of the time I don’t know what they’re talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I’m a foreigner in the...
The Big Fresh January 19, 2013 Shoulds
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing, and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. Rumi At the side of my desk sits my little Epson printer. It’s...
The Big Fresh January 12, 2013 Control
Control is never achieved when sought after directly. It is the surprising outcome of letting go. James Arthur Ray Years ago when I was a professor at the University...
