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
A few things I was thinking about…
Obsessions
Obsessions of Others
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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What I’m reading
Tag Archives: poetry
A Terminal Curable Disease
I’ve been brewing an essay on the illness that is perfectionism for a long time now. It’s not quite cooked yet. But this morning, after a terrible loss in our community, the thought came out like this: Be a beautiful … Continue reading
Today’s Reason to Love the Humans
Today’s Reason to Love the Humans They are vain selfish obtuse They shimmer with holy light so hard it hurts their eyes And love each other helplessly stupidly beautifully. They each get exactly one life And every day they remember … Continue reading
