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  • Grade 13

    June 20, 2009

    •   I was one of those girls who loved school. I didn't dread September the way my friends did, because with September came a stack of shiny new school supplies. (In You've Got Mail, when Tom Hanks tells Meg Ryan he'd like to buy her a bouquet of yellow pencils to celebrate the fall, I fell in love with him right then and there.) When I wasn't in school, I played school, dragging my reluctant ...
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  • Minimize Harm

    May 8, 2009

    •   "Seek the truth."  "Minimize harm." I tell my students that these are the two ethical principles that guide any publication, including school newspapers. But when one must be weighed against the other, we face a dilemma, and this happens more often than we'd like.My journalism students put out a weekly paper that is independent and uncensored. Because we are self-funded, ...
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  • What I Learned from Lily Briscoe

    March 24, 2009

    •   Lily Briscoe, the sympathetic main character of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, To the Lighthouse is an artist in search of meaning in her life. Will Mr. Ramsey ever make it to that damn lighthouse? Will she ever finish her painting? In the end, it doesn't matter. Ultimately, Lily realizes that "perhaps the great revelation never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, ...
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  • I got a new day job!

    January 27, 2009

    • A bunch of little updates: I accepted a job at a new startup today. I start next Monday. This will insure my families health and stability. This is a wonderful thing. Plus the company has huge potential. Its in the "Green Tech" area which is likely where the next high growth area comes from. (sorry its not biotech yet, heh).I have found that with patience and constant vigilance it is ...
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  • working writer or writing worker?

    January 11, 2008

    • Like most American writers, I have a day job. For most of my adult life that job has been raising my two children, running a household, occasionally selling artwork and teaching college part-time. I also wrote, here and there, but it wasn't until both kids were in school that I found the mental room of my own to begin to write with a mind tward publication. After my children were grown, two of ...
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