Perfect Whole
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Essays
- And then some history happened, and here we are.
- The Bulldozer
- Be A Happy Warrior
- The Perils of Prophecy
- Vindication
- “The Question Is”
- Survivalism
- “The Schools”
- “How Kind of You to Come”
- Creating a Character Template
- Rejecting the Gratitude Challenge
- “Mom, What’s the Right Age to Start Having Sex?”
- Don’t Pray for Peace
- Alligators and Flash Fiction
- What Are We Preparing Our Students For?
- “Unconvincing”
- The People’s MFA
- “The Goldfinch”
- Hungry
- Querying is Like Hell, Except Your Friends Aren’t There, Part I
- A Terminal Curable Disease
- Bigger
- Expanding the Universe
- Today’s Reason to Love the Humans
- “A Hologram for the King”
- What Would Dashiell Hammett Do?
- “Popping the Hood”
- Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
- The End.
- “Following”
- A New Year Every Day
- We Don’t Need Books to Free. We Need Them to be Brilliant.
- An Angel Packs a Suitcase
- The Other Julie Goldberg
- Lobbing Nerf Rocks
- Improvised Emergency Oil Candles
- “The Circus of Dreams”
- Perfect Whole, Superstorm Sandy Edition
- “One Lovely Blog”
- Unfriended
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Recurring dreams
- 5_Part_Series
- advice
- anti-bullying law
- A Room of One's Own
- attachment parenting
- authors
- baking
- blessing
- blogging
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- Bothmind
- brain
- bullying
- buttercream
- children
- cocoon therapy
- commercials
- concussion
- conflict resolution
- consciousness
- consumerism
- diane ravitch
- digital immigrants
- digital natives
- DNTO
- economy
- editing
- education
- education reform
- employment
- entrepreneurship
- feminism
- flash fiction
- freaks
- freedom
- freewriting
- geeks
- internet
- letterboxing
- libraries
- love
- magnificent nose
- Marc Prensky
- materialism
- midlife crisis
- motherhood
- news
- NJ Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights
- Obama
- PACC
- perfectionism
- poetry
- politics
- popularity
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- power
- publishing
- reading
- relationships
- religion
- romance
- soul
- suicide
- survival
- teaching
- technology
- television
- The People's MFA
- turret
- unknown unknowns
- Virginia Woolf
- Waldorf education
- weeding
- wisdom
- writing
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Tag Archives: PACC
Post-Apocalyptic Career Counseling, Part III
III. Conclusion If not even an Ivy League education is a guarantee of success, then what is? Well, the employment rate among neurosurgeons remains encouragingly high, if you have the hands for that kind of work. The Bureau of Labor … Continue reading
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Tagged economy, education, employment, entrepreneurship, PACC, wisdom
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Post-Apocalyptic Career Counseling, Part II
II. Life Beyond the Success Algorithm “My whole life, I had been doing everything everybody told me. I went to the right school. I got really good grades. I got all the internships. Then, I couldn’t do anything.” –Rebecca Chapman, … Continue reading
Posted in Criticism, Education
Tagged economy, education, employment, entrepreneurship, PACC, teaching
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Post-Apocalyptic Career Counseling, Part I
I. Demise of the Standard-Issue Career Advice What are you telling the rising generation about how to succeed in the post-apocalyptic economy? Is it something like this? Pay attention to your teachers, do your homework, and study for your tests. … Continue reading
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