Last year my family read aloud Bob Goff’s new book, “Dream Big”. We really enjoyed it. Truly. However, some of us also struggle with the jump from the ideal dream to reality. The fact is that none of our dreams have ever come true the way that we’ve first envisioned them. If it never comes […]
As this past school year starts to wane, I’ve met some surprises. One of the most surprising things to me has been how the students in my classes have formed a small community, even though they’ve never seen each other’s faces. Through the live public chat box and the informal meetings like our Monday problem
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Admittedly, math is not my favorite subject. It isn’t especially difficult for me, or unpleasant, it just sort of resides in the same earthly realm as I, and we tolerate each other. I always did well in school, I thrived in English Literature, survived the sciences, and contentedly dog paddled through mathematics, never sinking, and
Are you in a mastermind? Now, I know what you’re thinking: what’s a mastermind? Actually, it’s more likely that you know what a mastermind is and are a member of a great one. Or perhaps you are like Fessik and say, “I am the mastermind”. Regardless of your participation or lack thereof, a mastermind can
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When I was a child my mother told me that the secret to cooking was following the directions. Whether she was right or not, I can’t attest for my cooking never amounted to much and neither did my ability to follow directions. Even if my cooking doesn’t follow the directions, I have found that some
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