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
- books
- 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: soul
Expanding the Universe
This week, a guest post from Ruth Hansen about the crucial role the arts play in expanding our circles of compassion. Acting teacher Sanford Meisner defined acting as no less than living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. Actors are trained to imagine … Continue reading
Posted in Criticism, Volta
Tagged art, compassion, music, philanthropy, singing, soul, theater, wisdom
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Against Positive Attitudes
A few days ago, I lost someone I cherish, my mother-in-law of seventeen years, Marjorie Feldman Springer, who died of an extremely aggressive form of leukemia. Marge was a vivacious, energetic, athletic person, who biked, hiked, swam, played a devastating … Continue reading
Adventures in Bothmind
I grew up both. Both Catholic and Jewish. Both an only child and the youngest of four. Both middle and working class. Both a child of the 70s and 80s and, by accidents of birth and history, a very late … Continue reading
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Tagged Bothmind, brain, consciousness, education, freaks, religion, soul, Waldorf education
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This Essay is Not Living Up to Its Potential
You’re not working up to your potential! Raise your hand if your teachers told you this when you were growing up. Wow! That many of you! That’s a LOT of unlived-up-to potential! Let us pause for a moment and imagine … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Motherhood, Volta
Tagged advice, education, perfectionism, potential, self-compassion, soul, teaching, underachievers, wisdom
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Grand Unified Theory
I’ve been thinking a lot over the past year about emotions. Well, that’s only half the truth. I’ve been feeling a lot of emotions. In 2011, I weathered a midlife crisis, made a new commitment to my writing, and confronted several serious … Continue reading
Posted in Criticism, Motherhood, Writing
Tagged amateur philosophy, brain, consciousness, emotions, love, midlife crisis, relationships, soul, wisdom
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God Bless You. Or Not.
Safe home! Life is dangerous. Our travels can be hazardous in bad weather. We get sick and injured. We get our hearts broken. We get tides of bad luck when everything goes wrong. We do not have a nice weekend. … Continue reading
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Tagged blessing, Christmas, consumerism, Hanukkah, religion, solstice, soul, War on Christmas, wisdom, Yule
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You Can Spread It with a Paper Knife!
Remember this commercial? No? Well, 1977 really was a long time ago, I suppose. This 36-second drama presents a man in a suit explaining to a housewife that Pillsbury Frosting Supreme is so creamy that “you can spread it with … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, buttercream, commercials, consumerism, love, midlife crisis, relationships, soul, technology, television, wisdom
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