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Link: Just another day at the coffee shop
Short piece. I enjoyed reading it. Just another day at the coffee shop I don’t know much about the blog hosting the piece, but I’ve found some really interesting reads there over the past week.
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Link: Colleges should teach religion
A college professor makes a strong case that American public higher education has a glaring omission: American higher education has, however, one glaring deficiency: it does not teach its undergraduates how to live. It teaches them when the French Revolution was, what the carbon cycle is, and how to solve for X. It does not…
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The Backstory: What’s your earliest memory?
My Backstory series offers stories about my upbringing and background. You can find the whole series under the category “Biography,” if you’re interested. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I don’t know about you, but my earliest memories stretch back pretty early. I can’t prove it, but I’m pretty sure I have fuzzy memories of being 2. For sure, I recall events…
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The Backstory: A roof over our heads
My Backstory series offers stories about my upbringing and background. You can find the whole series under the category “Biography,” if you’re interested. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My mom already had teenage sons when she married my dad, so they embarked on the adventure of creating a “blended family.” My dad, 42 and new to the whole idea of parenting,…
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Is there an inventor in the house? [A tiny rant about Campbells soup]
A couple weeks ago my husband, who was working on a creativity project for one of his doctoral courses, asked me to help him brainstorm a list of problems that could be solved by inventing something. Of course, nothing really came to mind. [Performance anxiety? I’m usually a world-class brainstormer.] I do wish someone would…
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