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March 11, 2010
Posted by Kaye in: Accountability, Attitude, Children, Commentary, Economic Crisis, Education, Family, Governance, Habit Change, Homeland Security, Legal, Opinion, Politics, Social Issues, The Economy
Today, like every weekday, I got in my car, after work, and head for home listening to NPR. I’ve been thinking about this for some time now and today, after hearing a piece on NPR about Kansas City, Missouri’s school board approving a plan to close 26 schools in one district and Cleveland, Ohio’s school [...]
March 10, 2010
I was never a history buff. I was the kid in high school who got caught napping instead of listening. “So?” I would ask. “Why does this matter?” Now my tweenage daughters ask the same question and I struggle to explain why.
“Because,” I say. And it’s not one of those “Because I said so’s”. It’s [...]
March 1, 2010
I am the descendant of slaves and white slave owners. I did not melt into the pot that is America. The pot melted into me. Back in the later 50s and early 60s no one I knew wanted to admit to that. To be a descendant of a slave meant you were less than a [...]
February 8, 2010
Chapter 7 – Dealing with Schools
For most of us dealing with the teachers and administration at our child’s school can be a difficult process. Many of us approach this important task with needless trepidation or false conceptions.
We were once students ourselves and may have built up a habit of obeying or even expecting punishment or [...]
February 7, 2010
I can already see the shock on your faces, the blood leeching from your veins, the rolling of your eyes.
Such a dysfunctional attitude might be catching. It might be socially and irresistibly viral. As parents, we spend every day combating even the hint of its symptoms, like ‘flu and cancer. “But you must go to [...]
January 28, 2010
Is Experience more important than Education? Is Education more important than Experience? Is there no difference between the two?
We welcome your thoughts and comments.
December 11, 2009
Posted by AngelaPoseyArnold in: Biography & Memoir, Education, Faith, Family, Freedom, History, Inspiration & Motivation, Life Experiences, Lifestyle, Non-Fiction, Personal Experiences, Relationships, Religion, Short Stories, Social Aspects, Social Issues, Spirituality, Women's Perspective
Christmas 1947-Alabama (Not so much unlike Christmas 2009–Alabama—same heart–same spirit)
By Angela Posey-Arnold
“What are you getting for Christmas this year, Jimmy? I think I’m getting a record player. I picked one out at Elmore’s.” Bonnie said to her friend and classmate at lunch.
Jimmy swallowed the last bite of apple, “A record player? That will be neat. [...]
December 9, 2009
Everyone has wished they could go back in time to change something. You didn’t study for a test or maybe you messed up a relationship with someone. It’s only natural to want to change whats been done. In your dreams, changing the past is possible, while in reality changing the past is not at [...]
November 24, 2009
In our city, like a lot of other places, we have a recycle bin that we put out every week with our trash. Using this as an idea – my daughter who is a teacher for the 7th grade gifted program in her middle school – gave her students a project. They were to collect the recycled [...]
November 6, 2009
The invitation came via the Internet as most things do these days and I almost choked when I saw that it was for the 40th year reunion of my high school graduating class. I hadn’t felt old before I opened that I email but once [...]
October 30, 2009
I would like to share with you the Valedictory Address delivered by my daughter 2 years ago…it may have been 2 years ago but her achievements will always be fresh in my memory…
She wrote this herself.
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Colleen Marciel F. Rosales
Class Valedictorian, 2007
Members of the administration, faculty and staff, beloved parents, fellow graduates, distinguished guests, ladies and [...]
October 7, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Advice, Book Marketing Online, Book Review, Books, Communications, Current Events, Education, Family, General Topics, Health & Fitness, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Motivation, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Aspects, Social Issues, Spirituality, The Media, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Wellness
Carl Jung
Now here is another brain teaser for your therapist, or should I say mind teaser, the notion of curing someone with depression. Sadly, this is one of the most common causes of problems in marriages, and while we look for help from the professionals they take advantage of that vulnerability with a platform [...]
September 18, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Advice, Book Marketing Online, Books, Communications, Current Events, Education, Family, General Topics, Habit Change, Health & Fitness, Inspiration & Motivation, Life Experiences, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Personal Experiences, Philosophical Genres, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Issues, The Media, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Wellness, Women's Perspective
Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage
If you would like to get your therapist’s head spinning ask him or her what it means to be cured and watch as your therapist struggles to answer that question. The unfortunate reality is the psychology industry, with its biological foundation, has not yet defined what it means [...]
September 15, 2009
Posted by psuedowriter in: Accountability, Current Events, Democracy, Economic Crisis, Economics, Education, Environmental Issues, Family, Finance, Geopolitical Events, Latino & Hispanic, Opinion, Recovery, Social Aspects, The Economy
In the greater scheme of global brotherhood and advancement, all of the aims of these “special schools” are wonderful things. In the meanwhile, the taxpayers of today are suffering, and I don’t think most of us like [...]
September 15, 2009
“No man but a blockhead wrote except for money.” Samuel Johnson was referring to all of us, regardless of gender. Beyond penning Post-it® Notes, shopping lists, family correspondence and ‘duty’ writing, humans with basic writing skills should theoretically be able to write professionally and be paid to do it. In [...]
September 12, 2009
At thirteen, I was sent away to public school which meant that it was a private school anybody could attend whose parents were very, very rich. It was called ‘public’ because it was open to anyone (whose parents were very, very rich), not closed (in favour of whom exactly?). What is ever closed to the [...]
September 11, 2009
On September 9, President Barack Obama addressed Congress to discuss health care. The news media has focused on that speech, giving scant attention to his address to the nation’s school children one day earlier. Despite the dire predictions of the right-wing, the republic is, regardless of that [...]
September 10, 2009
When I was 15, somebody read out in chapel a diatribe against the young as being lazy, disrespectful, sloppy etc.. The diatribe dated back to Rome in the first century BC.
This is no reflection on the male writers who contribute to this site, all of whom are lively and intelligent and challenging even if they [...]
September 9, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Advice, Books, Communications, Education, Family, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Morality, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Relationships, Self-Help, Sex, Social Issues, The Media, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Women's Perspective
International Professional Surrogate Association
I am sorry to be so hard on the psychology industry but some of their practices done in the name of “science” bely belief, and I have discovered another concept ridiculous to the point of being hilarious.
Before I go into that concept I do want to discuss what had been my [...]
September 8, 2009
President Obamas speech–victimized again by television
by Bill Hazelgrove
Television may appeal to what is banal and base and it may be low art but it should not be used to hurt our democracy. We have been victimized again. Talking heads on the left and the right have hacked it out over the Presidents speech to school [...]
September 7, 2009
Saturday morning we packed a van to take our youngest daughter back to school. Although classes don’t start at her university for two weeks she had to move in because this year, her senior year, she will be working as a Resident Advisor for one floor of a very large dorm. The packing had been intense [...]
September 5, 2009
Here Comes the President. Hide the Kids!
By Alan Caruba
So the President wants to get the school year off with a speech to all the kids from kindergarten to twelfth grade. Under normal circumstances, this would not arouse my comment although it must be said that I do not recall any previous president doing this.
I do [...]
September 5, 2009
The Lottery
by Steve Sangirardi Bard715@aol.com
One of my worst experiences as a teacher occurred while I was doing “The Lottery.” It was back in the late 80s at a certain Catholic high school in Queens, New York. I decided that my 11th-grade class, which met during 3rd-Period, was going to experience firsthand the inhumanity that [...]
September 1, 2009
Posted by Antonio de la Vega in: Cancer, Education, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Latino & Hispanic, Lifestyle, Medical, Mexico, Native American, Nature/Wildlife, Nutrition, Religion, Self-Help, Sex, Social Aspects, Social Classes, Social Issues, Sociology
Recientemente la Universidad Autónoma de México (U.N.A.M.) presentó el resultado de un esfuerzo monumental, consistente en la construcción de una enciclopedia multimedia especializada en la medicina tradicional [...]
August 27, 2009
You can probably tell from the number of posts I that I love to write. It was a joy I picked up at the age of five when I first learned to read and write poetry, a talent I inherited from both my parents. Writing is a therapy to express all my feelings and I [...]
August 26, 2009
Wheat, Yes, Wheat!
By Alan Caruba
Today, we shall talk of wheat. Yes, wheat!
Since 98% of Americans have no connection to farming beyond a visit to the supermarket, most give no thought to how food products get to the shelves.
However, if you do a quick inventory of the foods you eat on a daily basis, you will [...]
August 24, 2009
Where are the Parents?
by Lloyd Lofthouse
There is nothing to envy about many American families. They are in worse shape than the economy.
My wife is Chinese. She lived in China the first twenty-eight years of her life. She is now an American citizen. In China and other Asian countries, family is important.
If you study Confucian [...]
August 24, 2009
What Academia Doesn’t Teach
by Peggy Klaus
It’s back-to-school time once again. Here in Berkeley where I live and work, I always enjoy watching the annual return of the students as they move into dorms, say good-bye to parents, and fill the streets with their eager faces. Last weekend, after seeing two Cal freshmen struggle to [...]
August 21, 2009
Posted by dacipha in: African-American, Attitude, Education, Family, Health & Fitness, Inspiration & Motivation, Latino & Hispanic, Mental Health, Nutrition, Uncategorized, Weight loss, Wellness, Women's Perspective, Working Women
Smooches, my beautiful ladies! Please understand that I am not the fitness connoisseur. I speak as a concerned woman. This article is to encourage you to be the beautiful woman that God has called you to be. My desire is for you to be emotionally, mentally, spiritually, socially, physically and financially whole. It is very [...]
August 21, 2009
The Meaning of an Education
by Lloyd Lofthouse
Words are cheap. Actions speak loud. The best way to learn about another culture is by comparing and contrasting that culture with yours to see any similarities and differences.
Emperor Constantine lived 280-337 AD. He ruled the Roman Empire and accepted Christianity as the state religion. From that time, Christianity, [...]
August 21, 2009
Posted by James BlueWolf in: Accountability, Attitude, Children, Current Events, Economic Crisis, Economics, Education, General Topics, Habit Change, Native American, Opinion, Social Classes, Social Issues, Television, The Economy, Uncategorized
It’s soccer season and suddenly the circle has come round and my wife and I are re-creating our lives from the early 1980’s. Instead of five children, it’s three children and five grandchildren. But times have changed and where we originally had to scrape and scurry to come up with money to sign them up [...]
August 18, 2009
Posted by Lloyd Lofthouse in: African-American, Democracy, Education, Freedom, Governance, Latino & Hispanic, Minorities, Morality, Opinion, Politics, Social Classes, Social Issues
Each post will be less than 700 words.
This is the first entry—an introduction.
There will be several more on this topic.
By Lloyd Lofthouse
During America’s Civil Rights era, laws were enacted with the intent to correct wrongs in America. I strongly agree that it [...]
August 17, 2009
What Makes a good book GREAT & Read, Read, Read to Your Kids!
by Robert W. Walker
Not a week ago this question came up on Facebook-”What makes a book a great read for you? What makes a book not just good but GREAT? My reply on Facebook got a lot of interest and add on responses, [...]
August 15, 2009
SOFT SKILLS TRAINING GOES TO SCHOOL!
by Peggy Klaus
Middle school students at a New York City public school are learning what many business professionals tell me they wish someone had clued them into much sooner in their lives: SOFT SKILLS!
A six-week pilot program— Soft Skills 101: Lessons for Teens on Getting Ahead at School, at Work, [...]
July 31, 2009
Teaching U.S. Kids the U.N. Way
By Alan Caruba
It’s horrible enough to think of the way school children have been deliberately and unnecessarily frightened by the teaching in American schools about “global warming.” Since the 1980s it has been part of the curriculum in schools throughout the nation, convincing a lot of children that the Earth [...]
July 27, 2009
Why Some PhDs are Jerks
By Alan Caruba
I was talking with a friend about the latest hot topic involving Prof. Henry Lewis Gates of Harvard and the arresting officer, Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department.
We both agreed that some of the stupidest people we have ever known were PhDs who too frequently turned out [...]
July 21, 2009
You Are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring by Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken’s commencement speech at the University of Portland, Oregon, on May 3, 2009, is one for the record books.
Paul Hawken is a renowned entrepreneur, visionary environmental activist, and author of many books, most recently Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came [...]
July 10, 2009
Posted by Author 101 in: Advice, Business, Business Management, Economic Crisis, Economics, Education, Finance, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Internet Advice, Interview, Literature, Marketing, Motivation, Non-Fiction, Opinion, Publishing, Self-Help, Social Issues, Technology, The Economy, Uncategorized, Women's Perspective, Working Women
Do you plan to give up your job and start a new business of your [...]
July 5, 2009
Posted by Author 101 in: Advice, Attitude, Business, Business Management, Cap and Trade, Economic Crisis, Economics, Education, Finance, General Topics, Habit Change, Inspiration & Motivation, Internet Advice, Interview, Lifestyle, Literature, Marketing, Men's Issues, Motivation, Self-Help, Social Aspects, Social Issues, The Economy, Uncategorized, Website Instructions, Women's Perspective, Working Women
No, we won’t begin with “Do you have a master’s degree?” Although education does matter, higher education is not a requirement for starting or succeeding in a new business. In fact, according to a 1992 United States Census Bureau report, [...]
July 5, 2009
Posted by Author 101 in: Advice, Biography & Memoir, Book Marketing Online, Book Review, Books, Creative Writing, Education, Entertainment, Family, Fiction, Freelance Author, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Interview, Journalism, Literature, Motivation, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Self-Help, Short Stories, The Media, Writing Essentials
Nearly 81 percent of people say they have a book inside them. It’s in their hearts, minds, and soul; but unfortunately, it never seems to develop in pen. Most of these people feel their life story or an event in their life is worthy of becoming a book—and they may [...]
June 30, 2009
America, the Silly Nation
By Alan Caruba
As we prepare to celebrate Independence Day, we will hear about our Founding Fathers, about those who fought our wars to preserve and safeguard our nation, and other men and women who contributed to the nation’s greatness.
It is good to look back, but future generations will look back as well [...]
June 22, 2009
Posted by Bill Hazelgrove in: Books, Creative Writing, Education, Entertainment, Fiction, Lifestyle, Social Classes, Sociology, The Media, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Uncategorized
Read an article in the New York Times about the current generation not getting A Catcher In The Rye. “Why doesn’t he quit whining and take his Prozac,” some fifteen year old whined in some classroom discussion. The Times surmised Holden was dated and not relevant to our mega teen culture and that his disaffection [...]
June 17, 2009
As we approach Father’s day I have become aware of the young men who befriend my husband and ask for advice. They come from all racial backgrounds and all economic ranges seeking counseling about wives, children, jobs, getting jobs and, more than a few about education. When you live in an economically diverse area like [...]
June 13, 2009
Stayin’ Alive. Ah. Ha, Ha, Ha….
by John Armor
Saturday Night Fever begins with the classic scene of a very young John Travolta striding through the streets of Brooklyn. His shoes slap the pavement, his body sways to the rhythm of the Bee-Gees’ immortal song, played sotto voce, Stayin’ Alive. The story is about the attempt [...]
June 10, 2009
E-books are the future and the future is now. Have you been wondering how to write an ebook or how to make an [...]
June 6, 2009
Too Much Sex in the Schools
By Alan Caruba
America is a very different place from the one in which I grew up in the 1940s and 50s. Change is to be expected. Technology transforms the way we live, often in ways we do not initially comprehend. Events alter our perceptions, but one thing does not change. [...]
May 31, 2009
Stupefying America
By Alan Caruba
If you have a suspicion that many of your fellow Americans are too stupid to trust with the great affairs of this nation, you might just be right, but you might not know why.
Take a look at the choices television offers. Do you ever wonder why shows featuring stupid people or animated [...]
May 29, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Advice, Book Marketing Online, Book Review, Communications, Current Events, Education, Family, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Publishing, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Issues, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Women's Perspective
Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage
We know from Darwin’s theory of evolution that the notion of development elicits controversy from many intellectual corners. If we think about the notion of development through to its conclusion then many established organizations lose their grip on us as individuals. This question becomes extremely important in relationships. [...]
May 11, 2009
Posted by Author 101 in: Advice, Biography & Memoir, Book Marketing Online, Book Review, Business, Business Management, Communications, Computers, Creative Writing, Education, Fiction, Freelance Author, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Journalism, Literature, Motivation, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Publishing, Self-Help, Short Stories, The Media, The Writer's Corner, Uncategorized, Website Instructions, Women's Perspective, Working Women, Writing Essentials
When new authors write non-fiction, they will often base their subject matter on personal experiences. One mistake commonly made, is the over use of the word “I” in the beginning of sentences. “I know this because I’ve been there, done that.” Or, “I did it this, or that way.” Over [...]
May 8, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Advice, Book Marketing Online, Communications, Current Events, Education, Family, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Motivation, Non-Fiction, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Issues, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Women's Perspective
Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage
Here is the most significant point made in the entire book, transference causes divorce. This one single point can probably do more than any other to motivate couples to learn how to move their relationships in the right direction. And for the first time ever on a public [...]
April 29, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Advice, Book Marketing Online, Book Review, Communications, Current Events, Education, Family, General Topics, Habit Change, Health & Fitness, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Literature, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Motivation, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Issues, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Women's Perspective
Tim Kellis, Author of "Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage"
I want to pose to you one of the most significant questions needed to understand before we are going to solve our marriage problem. Are we biological beasts or psychological beings? Unfortunately the belief within the mainstream teachings of the psychology industry is that [...]
April 28, 2009
Recientemente recibí el correo de un familiar acerca de la epidemia de INFLUENZA en México. Anoto y añado algunas precisiones que bien cabe aclarar. Sirva este texto a modo de [...]
April 27, 2009
Whenever I bring up something that really happened on the subway people think I made it up. Life has always been more interesting than fiction and if you reside in New York you tend to see it played out every day. I have learned over the years to take notes and try not to stare [...]
April 26, 2009
Last night, my wife and I went to the movies and saw Earth. My interest in nature documentaries is usually fairly tepid, but we’d seen the previews and we thought the cinematography might be worth the ticket price. It was.
Having said that, the movie was somewhat disappointing in a number of ways.
For one, [...]
April 16, 2009
For many years I have had the honor and sometimes pleasure of judging scholarship contests for teens. When The New World Foundation and Parade magazine joined efforts for the react Take Action Awards I would spend months reading over the application essays. When the contest [...]
April 10, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Communications, Current Events, Education, Family, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Motivation, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Issues, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Women's Perspective
Lenn
I would like to begin this post by stating that yes I am generalizing psychologists with posts like this, but as I get more involved in my project I am running across more concerned psychologists who do understand the notion of psychological healing through forgiveness by unlocking past experiences that cause individuals to have [...]
April 2, 2009
Author’s Note: Much of the information here was researched and organized by other authors, particularly Bruce Johansen. I am presenting it as an educational tool and not as an entirely original essay. J BlueWolf
Benjamin Franklin And Native Values
Colonial interest in Six Nation treaty accounts was high enough by 1736 for a Philadelphia printer, Benjamin Franklin, [...]
April 1, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Book Marketing Online, Communications, Current Events, Education, Family, General Topics, Habit Change, Health & Fitness, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Issues, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner
Tim Kellis, author of "Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage"
Hello
The month of April is upon us and I would like to invite you for a Blog Tour I will be doing this month, and next. The focus on the tour will be relationships, and the discussion is sure to be lively.
I want to [...]
March 25, 2009
The Education Wars
America is losing the education wars to countries like China and India. The reason for that is that the Chinese and the Indians love almost everything American. India even has their own Hollywood churning out movies by the hundreds. It’s called Bollywood.
China and India have hundred of millions of people that [...]
March 24, 2009
Posted by James BlueWolf in: Children, Current Events, Education, Environmental Issues, Family, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Native American, Nature/Wildlife, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Politics, Relationships, Religion, Social Aspects, Social Classes, Social Issues, Sociology, Spirituality, Uncategorized
Of all the words that Traditional People favor, Respect is the one used the most. It implies many things: values, morality, character, compassion, commitment, relationship, and more that is unspoken, but understood. We think it is the foundation of Traditional Life.
It begins with family and extended family, blossoming from an understanding of the importance of [...]
March 23, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Book Marketing Online, Book Review, Communications, Creative Writing, Education, General Topics, Health & Fitness, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Issues, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Women's Perspective
Hello.
I wanted to share with you a recent book review by Bettie Corbin Tucker from Independent Book Reviewers. To view the review online please visit the following link:
“Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage” Book Review
If you would like to pick up a copy of the book you can get it for a 20% [...]
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Parental Stress on College Students
In the spring of 1970 the young heir apparent of a wealthy Illinois family committed suicide in a field outside my college campus. His method of self disposal was drinking some type of cleaning fluid he had purchased. I don’t remember if he left a note but I know that he had made an attempt [...]