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Teaching Beginners
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I Get to Do This (Instead of I Have to Do This), ...
Under instrument flight rules pilots are taught to...
All appears to change when we change
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The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoi...
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frustration is a part of the process
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Jhumpa Lahiri
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I know it's working when I'm writing a book if I'm...
Let children read whatever they want and then talk...
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A good writer is always a people watcher. Judy Blume
You don't write because you want to, but because y...
Cruciferous Trough & Mini Cannoli
Humbled
What is the goal of parenting? It's to help a chil...
Teachers have a Spare Key
often in the laboratory of loss and uncertainty th...
I was no longer needing to be special, because I w...
If we treat people as they ought to be, we help th...
“Ce n’est pas possible d’éplucher des pommes de te...
lost all shadows
“It was the serene cheerfulness of a man who has n...
“Why, despite the blinding brightness, did everyth...
“He distrusted ideas, as they were always too rigi...
the pink chimney pots outlined against a pale blue...
It was night and I could see a large and calm lake...
“INTERVIEWERWhat do you mean by “too literary”? W...
I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer ...
It just happened. As though a moment comes when it...
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The fact that we are I don't know how many million...
If your vision of the world is of a certain kind y...
I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I ab...
A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother. G...
If each one of us could make just one other happy,...
write from where it hurts —Anne Bernays
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https://compassionprisonproject.org/the-documentar...
America has become Putin's Perverted Peep Show
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History doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes
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“Let me quote once more from Tolkien’s lecture, wh...
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How to Make Moroccan Cous Cous by Hand
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Swimmer's Shoulder
Spring Fever
Green Pea Soup and Basmati Brown Rice
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George Bilgere
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025
this is how you do it.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/harvard-letter
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