Choice Lit Topic: Big Fresh Archives
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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....
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...
