Life Advice
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We live in a culture that believes if you struggle with reading then you’re somehow an idiot. And yet, we also live in a culture that doesn’t truly support readers, especially struggling ones. There seems to be this belief among many, even experienced educators, that reading develops naturally over time. It doesn’t. Currently, I am
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The statement above is something most people keep to themselves. I’ve only ever said, “I have no idea what I’m doing,” to the people closest to me, and I mainly find myself saying it in a hushed, shameful whisper when I’m alone. But here we go, I’m coming out to the world: I have no
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Recently, there was a post circling around Reddit written by a man who felt betrayed by his wife for writing a book on her lunch break that earned $100,000. Some have said that this was a fake post, but the number of women who have spoken up on other social media sites, including Reddit, about
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Nearly every morning, I brew a cup of coffee and sit down to write in my journal. Ever since middle school, I have kept a journal to some degree, but one of my resolutions for 2020 was to write in my journal every morning I didn’t have to rush out the door to go somewhere
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It goes without saying that a lot of terrible things are going on in our country right now. While we cannot turn a blind eye to these things, I think many people are reaching a point of meltdown in their mental power plants because they are trying to take in and process everything all at
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Time is beginning to blur together. I did not realize it had been almost a month since my last blog post until I looked at the dates. Tomorrow is Memorial Day, and it seems that holidays and the change in temperature are the only things helping me to keep track of the flow of time.
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What I have discovered about myself recently is that I set goals that are extremely hard to reach. At times, I have even changed goals that are challenging but still obtainable into larger goals that I just can’t quite meet. The problem with this is, even though I have achieved or even surpassed the original
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I am one of the fortunate people of the world who has been able to maintain their job by working from home. Working for a school that already had a virtual learning system in place for our students who needed it, we had a smoother transition into working from home than most people. Still, my
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I have been struggling the past month or so with working through writer’s block. When I was younger, I thought writer’s block was just an excuse people gave themselves for being lazy, but over the past few years, I have had several instances of writer’s block that have taken months and months of productive writing
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I think we can all agree that this year started off far more poorly than we were hoping for. And I know that’s an understatement, but anyone who has been aware of the state of things around the world knows what the hell I’m talking about. We don’t need to rehash everything that’s happened. You
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