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Wiki’s

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Friday, May 18th, 2012

So I recently let Netflix take over my life again by starting to watch Heroes. It’s [...]


Storycorps beautifully animates 3 min. American stories

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Friday, May 18th, 2012

Storycorps was created earlier this year to record American’s heartfelt stories of our shared humanity, our [...]


Schadenfreude

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Thursday, May 17th, 2012

Like the Avenue Q song says, “…it’s human nature.” But ever since I was little I [...]


This American Life “Live”

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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Since, technically speaking, this is a “word” blog, I’m going to discuss something different. Rather than [...]


Handmade

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Monday, May 14th, 2012

Well, Mother’s Day has come and gone. I don’t know how other people celebrate the second [...]


The art of interpretation

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Monday, May 14th, 2012

The other day, I had an experience that I won’t soon forgot. No, I didn’t have [...]


Puzzling quotation marks

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Monday, May 14th, 2012

I’m traveling to Glasgow this summer and decided to look up concert venues there. Above is [...]


Words as an Offering

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Friday, May 11th, 2012

My daughter is a week away from being 3, and she is quite small “for her [...]


Ineffective Writing

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Friday, May 11th, 2012

Ineffective writing can be one of the most useless things that people ever have to put [...]


Investing in you

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Thursday, May 10th, 2012

A few days ago I attended a Drexel CEO workshop called “Things We Wish We Knew [...]